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0 pointsjandrese8y ago0 comments

Or they just cover the same interest areas? New Intel chips come out and both Slashdot and HN cover it, but not because someone is copy/pasting articles, it's just a story that both would cover.

Slashdot has a lot less "Everybody should switch to strongly typed functional programming language X" articles than HN, while HN definitely has fewer Your Rights Online type articles.

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AlbertoGP8y ago

Yes, and I've started reading it again a couple of weeks ago when I found that my account still worked. The reason to open an account back then was that the number of comments grew so large that I could not hope to read/skim them all and had to store the filter settings.

The current HTML/JS seems lighter than I remember, which was a problem for me as I started moving to other boards like HN.

We'll see. For now I've meta-moderated again after all those years.

[edit] BTW, relevant discussion in /.: https://meta.slashdot.org/story/17/10/03/2356229/20-years-of...

reaperducer8y ago

An article or two or three would be one thing. But when I can flip between the two windows and see NINE of the same articles, there's something afoot. It's a big world out there. Lots of news to be had. Someone's being lazy.

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