Slash, Soy, Technocrat: two weeks later

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Slash, Soy, Technocrat: two weeks later
Date	2014-02-22 20:42 +0000
Organization	solani.org
Message-ID	<leb243$7ne$1@solani.org> (permalink)

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At the end of the Slashcott, and a half-assed second week, Slashdot is
still standing, Soylent is up and running, and Perens' Technocrat is on
its feet.  I find myself hoping all three stick around - more articles
for all of us, or maybe I just like the fight.  In any case, I've given
up being mad at Dice: they can do what they want with their site, and I
might even continue visiting it if they post interesting stuff.  Here's
a quick look at comments: (it's column-aligned in fixed width font).

Soylent:
Intel 15 core CPU:      15 comments
Snowden interview:      8 comments
Computer chess:         24 comments
EULA Forestation:       20 comments

Slashdot:
Microsoft price cut:    51 comments
Gmail unsubscribe tool: 41 comments
Megatons to Megawatts:  66 comments

Technocrat:
Safari broken:          1 comment
California:             6 comments
ACs and Broken Windows: 8 comments
Groklaw:                10 comments

At a glance I'd say Slashdot has been impacted by the exodus, but still
has somewhat healthy commentary going.  Soylent has got a respectable
amount of comments, but some of them are pretty weak.  Technocrat is
struggling to get anyone to read it, and too many articles are about
Perens' software, which sure seems to be alpha-quality at this point.
He's off to a losing start.

Like I said, the reader potentially wins in that there are more articles
being posted.  Soylent does seem to have quickly built up a community,
which works in its favor.  Perens seems not to have done the same.  Like
I said, I'm no longer hoping for Dice's demise - let's keep the
competition going!

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Slash, Soy, Technocrat: two weeks later RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-22 20:42 +0000
  Re: Slash, Soy, Technocrat: two weeks later wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-22 16:29 +0000
  Re: Slash, Soy, Technocrat: two weeks later Koen Lefever <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-02-22 15:51 -0800
    Re: Slash, Soy, Technocrat: two weeks later wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-23 01:24 +0000
      Re: Slash, Soy, Technocrat: two weeks later RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-23 09:14 +0000
        PipeDot Captcha win RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-23 15:26 +0000
  Re: PipeDot Captcha win wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-23 10:30 +0000

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