Posted on Wednesday 9 November 2005 - Popularity: unranked
For me and thousands of other tech-news readers, digg.com is the new Slashdot, but that doesn’t mean Slashdot is now history, it just means that they now finally have a real reason to make the service a better experience for its users and add new features. Here’s a comment from Slashdot founder Jeff Bates about the sites future:
InformationWeek: Are there any features that you’re contemplating adding to Slashdot?
Bates: Yes. … As I mentioned, we migrated over to CSS, and we’re actually in the process of hosting a contest for readers to send us a redesign of the site. … It’s time to update the site. It’s been a very, very long time, and we want to have something that looks more “with the times,” perhaps. But in terms of functionality, we’re going to be doing a lot of work in the journals in terms of how to really make it so those can be areas that are almost sub-Slashdots in and of themselves, that you can get people posting inside of there and get people discussing journal entries. … And also finding ways of taking some of the good content that appears in a journal and having that appear [with] main Slashdot stories. … Having ways to make that more readily apparent to the general readership and being able to find that, because I think that just improves the overall collaboration and creation of content that the user and readers do.
