Ask HN: Wondering if any of you still frequent slashdot

Sure. The biggest problem with it is most topics on /. seemingly appearing days after they were already hashed out on HN.

On the other hand, I appreciate the raw unfiltered nonsense that still goes on in unfiltered comments. I also appreciate the curated discussion that takes place on HN. It's nice to have both.

Yeah, I came back to Chips & Dips, uh, Slash Dot, a few years ago, after a long hiatus due to an influx of what can only be described a juvenile idiots, but apparently most of them went away, thankfully. While it's certainly not like the "old days", there are still some things of value posted on /. and the comments can still be funny, and, or, informative, if they can manage to stay on topic at least. Occasionally, a famous low number will show up and school the whipper snappers, which is always fun to watch. I almost never log-in anymore, it's been years, since I lost my original low member number password in a hard drive crash. Also, I really miss Kuro5hin, Rusty had a good thing going there, too bad it imploded. I still have my original Kuro5hin T-shirt, it's quite faded though. I mostly visit metafilter anymore, it's not tech, but often interesting. Always looking for new interesting places to hang out, like here, but I rarely log-in to post.

Yes, but the quality of the community and interaction is falling. The days when you could easily mix it up with guys like Russ Nelson and Eric Raymond in /. comments are gone. Although I still occasionally find news/links to interesting things at /. before other places, that's getting to be a pretty infrequent occurrence. That said, I do miss the former quality of the community more than its timeliness, even.

Not for a long time. As pointed out by others, too toxic, and too commercial.

I was optimistic about http://pipedot.org/, but it's unmaintained for a long while.

Also https://soylentnews.org/ ... My impression is the comments there are sliding toward toxicity, I'm sorry to say.

I check it as much as HN. I was very late to HN as no one informed me of its existance and I never noticed slashdot was dying until I saw people on HN say that. I like both since you get different results from a pure upvotes based setup and an editorial board based setup suplemented by upvotes like you see with slashdot.

No. Reddit replaced Slashdot for me.

I left years ago because it was one of the first sites I frequented that insisted on “helping” me with a “mobile” interface that just got in my way, especially on iPad. It was particularly annoying because their desktop design scaled up just fine if they would just let it be used.

I occasionally check back now but the content is easily found on HN.

Very rarely although I have never been that active even in the old glorious days when it didn't had that name. But I miss it (the old /.) along other sites such as Kuro5hin, plastic.com and memepool.com.

Yes. A combination of muscle memory and morbid curiosity.

Yes, although I can't even remember the last time I looked at the comments section.

No. The culture became too toxic.

I still like it but it's not a daily visit for me as it once was.

Yep, I still visit it.

Yes.