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Wait, there's six of us?

eyes the room suspiciously

avoids eye contact

It'd be very interesting to see the financials of a dwarf star like Slashdot.

What does it take to keep it running? How many people are still employed by them?

It has been over a decade since I last went there.

I tried logging in the other day. For some reason, the page linked from the reset password email was completely broken. I reached out on Twitter, but it remained like that for days. I’d be surprised if they had even one full time staff for the site.

I’d say Slashdot is sustained purely on inertia. Pretty sure it’s just drifting towards the Sun and destined to blip out of existence eventually.

It’s a shame, but HN has clearly supplanted Slashdot as a place for nerds to congregate.

3 digit /. UID checking in!

I will say I miss meta-moderation. That was a neat feature.

Right? Way ahead of its time, in my opinion.