Slashdot was a major inspiration to us as we grew Ars Technica, not to mention a major source of critical traffic and growth in those early years.
Hats off to Rob! I owe you, dude. We all do :-)
Hats off to Rob! I owe you, dude. We all do :-)
Frankly these days Ars Technica could just as well be relabeled Apple Technica. The site scuttled their coverage of FOSS and similar under prominent sections, while the Apple stuff keep leaking out from their "infinite loop" section.
These days if it is not Apple related, it gets binned under their generic "gadgets" section.
And this from the site that got me interested in Linux in the first place back when it was black and orange, and housed a multipage introduction to Linux internals.
slashdot, ars, anandtech were foundational websites to me growing up - amazing that this was 17+ years ago
[edit] Wow, the moderators couldn't even tell I was complimenting the guy.
And not as much the politics, as the feeling that the site has become more "partisan" in the tech world.
Ars Technica has been a bittersweet story for years in all of the communities / circles that I hang out at. Some of their articles are great journalism. Others make you pine for "the good old days".
I wish they'd bring back Computer Gaming World. That was the gold standard of computer journalism. You can actually find PDF's of every issue ever released online and if you compare them to today, they used to be so methodical and objective. They didn't read like advertisements and there was no forced-in message about the political climate. You didn't read about Battle Chess and get shamed for liking that the Queen looked pretty.