Slashdot alternatives?

June 8, 2004 9:25 AM

Slashdot is a hellhole. Can anyone recommend any decent and at least semipopular tech news sites with insightful comments, and ones that won't ban my ip after two unjust downmods?
posted by angry modem to Computers & Internet (9 answers total)

kuro5hin.org
arstechnica.com

Popular, but not sure about comment insightfulness, i'm not a member of either
posted by derbs at 9:35 AM on June 8, 2004

hardocp.com
gizmodo.com
posted by falconred at 9:36 AM on June 8, 2004

The Register.
posted by inksyndicate at 9:36 AM on June 8, 2004

techdirt.com
posted by Smart Dalek at 9:48 AM on June 8, 2004

I miss the days of Bruce Peren's technocrat.net. It was a smarter, smaller slashdot.

Still, I do keep going to slashdot, because there is almost always a gem or two of a comment daily.

Have you tried OS News?
posted by weston at 10:05 AM on June 8, 2004

If you still want to read Slashdot without all the stupid, check out AlterSlash. It displays the past several front-page stories from Slashdot and the most highly-scored comments on each of them. And it has signal-to-noise graphs for the comments, which may be amusing or sad depending on how you feel about Slashdot.
posted by zztzed at 10:46 AM on June 8, 2004

Alterslash, OS News, and Arstechnica are great.

Planet Gnome is an aggregated blog site with Linux and Gnome people.
Furturismic reminds me of early slashdot, but it's hard on the eyes.
Google tech news.
XBlog.
NTK for brit news.
WebWord is ok for usability news.
posted by holloway at 3:59 PM on June 8, 2004

Have to plug my own newsbot. I honestly think this does tech news better than all of the above sources --yes, I am biased.
posted by costas at 8:49 PM on June 8, 2004

http://technocrat.net/ is back
posted by holloway at 1:35 AM on June 17, 2004