Slashdot alternative in the works

Re:Slashdot alternative in the works by SchizoDuckie on Monday February 10, 2014 @08:34AM (#7210895)

>>> Check out the look and feel of the new site

>>> http://imgbin.org/index.php?page=image&id=16688%7C

Really? Are they kidding?

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Re:Slashdot alternative in the works by freehunter on Monday February 10, 2014 @08:37AM (#7210915)

I'm beginning to believe this is an early april fool's joke.

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Re:Slashdot alternative in the works by SchizoDuckie on Monday February 10, 2014 @08:41AM (#7210943)

I actually checked the dates to see if this wasn't a project that was started back in 2002, but the article is actually recent.

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Re:Slashdot alternative in the works by ancientt on Monday February 10, 2014 @02:29PM (#7213111)

Yup. Slashdot was driven by open source software before Dice.com took over. Now you have to go back to that point to get source code and yes, it's ugly and mind bending to try to work with it. But it has been done before: http://barrapunto.com/

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Re:Slashdot alternative in the works by billyjobob on Monday February 10, 2014 @10:48AM (#7211622)

I assume the screenshot only looks bad because it was taken on a Linux machine with poor fonts installed. On a modern browser/OS it would look the same as Slashdot does.

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