Slashdot Posting Bug Infuriates Haggard Admins: Slashdot runs into their version of the Y2K bug. Last night we crossed over 16,777,216 comments in the database. The wise amongst you might note that this number is 2^24, or in MySQLese an unsigned mediumint. Unfortunately, like 5 years ago we changed…
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters: After all these years, Slashdot is redesigning (the link is a preview). Sort of. This was the winning design to convert Slashdot from it’s old-school HTML to a current CSS-driven design. Not much has changed, though it’s cleaner and we finally say…
Slashdot is Going out of Style in 2006: Of course, it will take a while, but Zawodny predicts that sites with more community will take over. Haven’t we figured out that the crowd is generally smarter than any one individual in the crowd? Sites like Digg…