From the first moment I first went online in 1996, forums were the main place to hang out. In fact the very first thing I did was join an online forum run by the Greek magazine "PC Master" so I could directly to my favourite game reviewers (for me it was Tsourinakis, for those old [...]
  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 month ago

    My migration was primarily driven by threading, voting, and ads.

    1. forums (community topics) >
    2. slashdot (community topics + threads) >
    3. digg / reddit (community topics + threads + comment voting) >
    4. Lemmy (community topics + threads + comment voting - ads)
    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      slashdot (community topics + threads) >

      slashdot hads voting though. In fact I wish we had the same sort of votes slashdot had. up/down votes are so limited :(

        • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          31·
          1 month ago

          It had post voting, but no comment voting.

          Doesn’t your screenshot show the opposite?

          • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 month ago

            Maybe I’m missing something, but I thought you could only upvote / downvote posts. Comments were just a thread, and whoever commented first was at the top.

            Hence why a lot of our early shitposting was just commenting “first” as soon as an interesting post when live.

            • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 month ago

              Yes, it didn’t re-sort by default. You can, however, hide based on score. so kinda?

              They also used to (maybe they still do) have meta-moderation where you could flag things as funny or insightful. I always considered that a nice touch but it didn’t allow sorting either. .

    • celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      41·
      1 month ago

      I’ve found slashdot, over the last 2 decades, has devolved into climate change denying, capitalist fellating, wildly off topic flame wars in the comments. As a news aggregator, I’ve never seen an article hit slashdot before it hits reddit or lemmy.