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What "News for Nerds" Sites Should I Use?

posted by mattie_p on Monday February 17 2014, @08:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the certainly-not-here dept.

stderr writes: "I used to visit a certain website quite often, but if Dice Holdings decide to switch the interface to what is currently known as "Beta", I'll have to find another site for my "stuff that matters" fix. So, SoylentNews, what sites can you recommend for a "maybe-ex" /. user?"

 
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by j-stroy on Tuesday February 18 2014, @09:06AM

    by j-stroy (761) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @09:06AM (#1489)

    Arrrrrrrrr! Thank gosh this site is up, kudos all! I participated in the boycott. and am not that likely to participate on the former cool place.. Checked back there and i see what seems to be a LOT more stories than usual.. and generally lower # of comments. Altho some with decent participation and NOTHING about Beta.. did we miss something? or did everyone who cared leave, and others just miss the events over those few days..

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  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Thursday March 06 2014, @07:13AM

    by anubi (2828) on Thursday March 06 2014, @07:13AM (#11812) Journal

    I think what we are seeing is a slow migration of people pissed at Dice for doing what they are doing, jumping ship, and coming over here.

    My initial impressions, since I am straddling between one and the other, is this site has far fewer contributors, but the contributions themselves are of a much higher quality. That is Soylent is attracting the cream of the Slashdot crop. Those are the people who made Slashdot what it had become... a mecca for high-tech professionals to seriously discuss events of the day. That seems to be going away as the investors and the techies butt heads over which manner content is accessed. I do not think we want to attract the kind of people who aren't pissed off over what the new owners of Slashdot are doing to it.

    So, if it must be that Slashdot be abandoned because some investor makes it so, I had just as soon leave the adolescent crap over on Slashdot and not attract them over here.

    I was also a member of another top-notch group of professional oilmen over at "The Oil Drum" under the moniker "hardhat". It, too, was a wonderful gathering place to discuss our energy situation. While they were very welcoming to people with an interest in petrochemical affairs, they had little interest in attracting ones to dilute the forums with useless crap posts.

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