Slashdot in 'offline mode' – anybody notice?

Posted by vocatan on Friday March 02, 2018 @04:47PM
from the self-post dept.

so https://www.slashdot.org hasn't been showing new stories for since yesterday mid-day. If you go to the firehose url of https://slashdot.org/recent it shows "503 - Service Offline Slashdot is presently in offline mode. Only the front page and story pages linked from the front page are available in this mode. Please try again later."

Am I the only dinosaur who turns to Slashdot for my daily news fix (along with Hacker News, of course!). Didn't find anybody posting on this on Hacker News nor on Twitter.. wondering if anybody's noticing, or just thinking it's a slow day.

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Re:Slashdot in 'offline mode' – anybody notice? by clouddrover on Friday March 02, 2018 @06:39PM (#16506755)

The Sourceforge Operations Twitter feed says they've had some outages lately (including a DDOS attack) and that they're working on it:

https://twitter.com/sfnet_ops

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Re:Slashdot in 'offline mode' – anybody notice? by tarellel on Saturday March 03, 2018 @12:59AM (#16508150)

Pretty sad, considering slashdot's traffic used to be a source of what "appeared" to be a DDOS attack because of all the traffic. It used to be the best source around for tech related news, now it mostly consists of reposts from various sites. I think it would have stayed relevant if it had been an entity of it's own, rather than being part of the whole SourceForge tragedy.

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Re:Slashdot in 'offline mode' – anybody notice? by vocatan on Saturday March 03, 2018 @12:19AM (#16508035)

Ahh, that makes sense - thanks!

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Re:Slashdot in 'offline mode' – anybody notice? by SEJeff on Friday March 02, 2018 @04:49PM (#16506073)

I stopped reading slashdot after CmdrTaco left, it just didn't have the same "bespoke hand crafted" feel to the content. HN / the twitters has been my person go-to since.

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Re:Slashdot in 'offline mode' – anybody notice? by vocatan on Friday March 02, 2018 @04:56PM (#16506128)

Consuming from twitter is like drinking from a genuine firehose, gives me nothing but gas and regrets. :D

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Re:Slashdot in 'offline mode' – anybody notice? by clouddrover on Sunday March 04, 2018 @12:27AM (#16513406)

Slashdot's back:

https://meta.slashdot.org/story/18/03/04/0428237/slashdot-ou...

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Re:Slashdot in 'offline mode' – anybody notice? by markvangulik on Saturday March 03, 2018 @10:37AM (#16509681)

Slow two days now. Lots of internal errors, no new content since Thursday.

I guess they won’t ever add decades overdue Unicode support after all, since ad revenue will be zero pretty soon.

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