Slashdot Struggles to Remain Relevant in The Social Web

Slashdot is a top 1,000 website, it has only grown in audience over the years, I fail to see how it is 'struggling to remain relevant' in this sense.

Sure it has its problems, the audience has changed significantly over time, they've added stuff (idle??) that literally drove out a good portion of the old guard but it's a little premature to describe them as struggling in terms of remaining relevant.

HN contains plenty of refugees from /. so I'm sure that to many people here this will be a recognisable subject but for every person that left 10 more joined up in the meantime.

Relevance is hard to measure anyway, a few anecdotes and the woopra stats are not going to convince me that the 100's of thousands of visitors per day that slashdot attracts are no longer a force to be reckoned with.

Personally I find the woopra stats more than a little bit suspect because /. shows up as a 0, I find it hard if not impossible to believe that sites much smaller than /. in audience size result in an overall infinitely larger number of visitors.

A '0' in a result like this is suspect. Maybe they forgot to include .org domains ;) ? Probably the result says more about woopra and the sites they analyse or their methods than it does about slashdot.

I still read slashdot. I think the problem with it is that stories are sometimes slow to hit the front page. It's not uncommon to have day old news as the top entry on slashdot.

I'm really not sure what facebook integration has to do with anything, I doubt that slashdot users left because of that.