Slashdot is what it always was. They have maintained their identity in spite of all the new trends, and they will continue to maintain their audience. Digg, Reddit, HN.News are different from Slashdot.

I think he meant in terms of total traffic.

at least according to quantcast, their traffic numbers have been steadily going down: http://www.quantcast.com/slashdot.org#traffic

That begs with my analysis. MyHosting.com hosted my blog when it got posted to reddit and /. back in Aug. 2005, and I got something like 40,000 hits the first day, with over 18+K uniques, last time I checked.

Then again, how much traffic I really received I'll never know. If you're doing more than 50 connections/sec, they shut down your account so their other clients "don't suffer".

I promptly moved. And I don't recommend them.

The traffic they send is not.

It's not the hip new place any more, for sure. On the other hand, they seem to have done an ok job of stemming the downward slide, something that digg and reddit are really struggling with.

HN has Alexa rank of 7000, while slashdot has about 1000. When I look at HN Alexa rank, a big jump happened in the last month. Anyone knows why? I like HN myself, the philosophy suits me better...