I actually started reading /. again a while back. The quality of the discussion there has gone up quite a bit ever since the kiddies and trolls defected to Digg and Reddit.

The breadth of people who read slashdot is still an advantage I have not seen duplicated elsewhere. There are many sites where programming stories will be comented on by programmers. There are not so many where particle physics stories are commented on by particle physicists.

real life