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• Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?

  Probably my Slashdot account from 1999. https://slashdot.org/~DaGoodBoy. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Apple Vision Pro Review: The Best Headset yet Is Just a Glimpse of the Future

  If anyone does not understand the reference, "Slashdot" is a link-sharing site oriented at tech news, that was popular many years ago as HN is today. https://slashdot.org. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Ask HN: How can I back up an old vBulletin forum without admin access?

  It has been a VERY long time since I've done this with `wget`, but here's what I pulled out of my notes. I used to use this to mirror Slashdot when I was travelling for work and had limited/no internet: ```

    wget --ignore-length --no-remove-listing --no-check-certificate --recursive --page-requisites --span-hosts --convert-links --no-verbose --tries=3 --timeout=60 --level=1 --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0...

  - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda – Hacker History Podcast

  My user number on /. Is "404" ( https://slashdot.org/~dmd ). - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Adios and thanks for the fishes!

  If I want a real "front page of the Internet" that is web-based, I will head back to https://slashdot.org. Source: 10 months ago

Digg mentions (74)

• The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so

  They are referring to digg who set up most AMA. Source: 10 months ago

• Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is fighting a losing battle against the site's moderators

  Or is it a success because Reddit Inc has shown its hand of not giving a shit about your average user and this site will bleed users as they, especially power users who actually post and moderate and build the communities in the first place flee to places where their countless hours of unpaid labor are appreciated (like lemmy, kbin, mastodon), and good old reddit becomes a ghost town like digg which is apparently... Source: 10 months ago

• What did the Reddit blackouts actually accomplish?

  It's the great unraveling. Communities are torn asunder. It's could very well be the first step of Reddits fall. Or reddit will just look and feel very different afterwards. A husk of an aggregator. Go to digg.com right now to see what reddit might be. Source: 10 months ago

• What's Your Take on Reddit's Plan to Sell Your Posts and Comments as "Data Licensing" to Other Companies to Train AI Language Models?

  Reddit owes much of its success to the digg.com exodus, it would be fitting for its demise to be caused by a similar exodus. Source: 10 months ago

• Donald Trump’s Indictment Helps Boost MSNBC To Primetime Weekly Ratings Win Over Fox News

  I went over to see what digg.com was up to these days. Their comment section is comprised of reddit comments. Brutal. Source: 11 months ago