The boys at Forever Geek are talking about the Slashdot Effect Weakening, and ask why this is.
Personally, everything I read on /. I've already seen hours or even days before somewhere else.
/. is fun for the comments (assuming you're reading at something like +2), but the number of times I see something actually "new" there in a given day is rapidly approaching zero. Granted, once in a while they link to some novel thing like a nutjob who's ported Apache to his wristwatch and then hosted the HowTo from it, and those still tank within minutes. But more often than not, it's old news with a bunch of people rabidly arguing in the comments. So I skip the link, having already read it, and read the comments once in a while. It's a geek message board now.
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