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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by cambalache on Saturday April 25, 2020 @09:45PM (#22983508)
The old Slashdot was orders of magnitude better than HN -I am not going to even mention Reddit-. For all its lame jokes it was filled with people who actually loved technology and science and the moderation system was very solid.
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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by gorgoiler on Sunday April 26, 2020 @01:40AM (#22984800)
+5 Insightful

...is something I still say out loud to myself occasionally. For example if I hear a good point made on the radio.

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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by badsectoracula on Sunday April 26, 2020 @09:10AM (#22986878)
The UI was awful though... and still is, just not as awful as it used to be. Like, come on, what is with the comment UI? Why can't they just, you know, display these comments like every single other site out there and instead they have this weird control panel with partial comments, two(!) sliders, etc. At least now there is a button to load all comments (but you still have to adjust the sliders)... but you have to do it for every single comment, it doesn't remember the setting. And at the past it was even worse, with a floating(!) control panel and many comments were hidden, but you could still see replies to them.

Like WTF? What were they thinking?

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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by j45 on Sunday April 26, 2020 @02:08AM (#22984946)
Anyone curious should go read Slashdot posts from that time.
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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by easytiger on Monday April 27, 2020 @07:05AM (#22994721)
/. From this day 2005

https://web.archive.org/web/20050326092609/http://slashdot.o...

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Re:Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do... by mxcrossb on Saturday April 25, 2020 @10:58PM (#22983967)
> I am not going to even mention Reddit

You mean you don’t enjoy the current -

> With Joe Biden’s campaign in freefall amid concerns about his declining mental health and new sexual assault allegations, remember this: it’s a good time to note that Bernie’s on the ballot.

- front page news Reddit?

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