Just read that Slashdot and Sourceforget have been sold for $20M. It's actually quite a shame, because they were definitely sold at a loss in my opinion. Those properties were so killer back in the day ... you know, back when a site would go down because it was "slashdotted" and github didn't exist.
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Jump to PostThe first thing to happen when a popular site gets bought out is either a systematic removal of editors & writers they don't want, or a big change in advertising.
Also - being slashdotted was back in a time when social-media generated content wasn't as weighted as it is now …
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