so https://www.slashdot.org hasn't been showing new stories for since yesterday mid-day. If you go to the firehose url of https://slashdot.org/recent it shows "503 - Service Offline
Slashdot is presently in offline mode. Only the front page and story pages linked from the front page are available in this mode. Please try again later."<p>Am I the only dinosaur who turns to Slashdot for my daily news fix (along with Hacker News, of course!). Didn't find anybody posting on this on Hacker News nor on Twitter.. wondering if anybody's noticing, or just thinking it's a slow day.
The Sourceforge Operations Twitter feed says they've had some outages lately (including a DDOS attack) and that they're working on it:<p><a href="https://twitter.com/sfnet_ops" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/sfnet_ops</a>
I stopped reading slashdot after CmdrTaco left, it just didn't have the same "bespoke hand crafted" feel to the content. HN / the twitters has been my person go-to since.
Slow two days now. Lots of internal errors, no new content since Thursday.<p>I guess they won’t ever add decades overdue Unicode support after all, since ad revenue will be zero pretty soon.