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White male privilege is real
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What happens when most of your team is Indian?
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Peaceful Protest Hasn’t Worked and Has Been Met With Aggression.
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Do people underestimate E6 role at meta?
Used to be THE destination for techies during the dawn of the internet for the masses. Before Blind, Reddit, Hackerrank, fark, there was Slashdot. The site became exactly what it hated, a place full of random clickbait ads. Its not even targeted ads. Traffic is down, and hardly any posts get 40 to 60 replies. Their problem was they were too rage filled and too much LOL install Linux stuff going on. Completely lost sight of any big picture.
I think money and overall cultural shift was the problem with /. , they never found a way to make the site sustainable, the editors quit, ads got worse, and the linux neckbeard thing became cringe. Their comment scoring and moderation system was still one of the best out there though.
Pepperidge farm remembers! 🥲
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Used to visit theserverside.com back in the day
I think the /. user base got older and turned into the very stereotypical old people: grouchy, judgmental, jaded.