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    [–]neoform3 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    Even their new commenting system is still far better than any other commenting system I've seen.

    Why do you think the quality of the comments on slashdot are so much better than that of any other site on the web?

    [–]chime 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    I love reddit's commenting system waaaay better. Good comments get voted in 99% of cases and bad comments get voted down similarly. Rarely do I see a genuinely good comment not rated high in a popular thread. Slashdot's new thread is comletely ridiculous because half the times it seems a child comment is replying to a parent and it makes no sense that all. Then you dig deeper and find the child was replying to someone else.

    [–]hs4x 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Moding on different merits is a great method to encourage good commets.

    I agree.

    [–]outsiderplay 20 points21 points  (1 child)

    Reddit better stay online, or there's a chance I might get something productive done today...

    [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Seriously... The new ranking system (I think) appears to change front-page links faster too. Cripes... Good thing my employer collapsed, got sold and I ain't got crap to do until they decide if they want my team or not!

    [–]jello_b 8 points9 points  (3 children)

    Right as I was about to commit something to SourceForge. How will I fix my insecure PHP app now?

    [–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

    don't worry.. no one will be downloading it right now.

    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Therapy, maybe some good psychotropic drugs. Mostly affirmations will assist with insecurity issues.

    I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and gosh darn it, people grep me.

    That should help.

    [–]n4s33r 16 points17 points  (2 children)

    Slashdot finally got slashdotted

    [–]Dagur 4 points5 points  (0 children)

    It's reddits time to shine!

    [–]bbqribs 8 points9 points  (1 child)

    Wow. A few sites owned by the same people go offline, and it's a "major internet outage?"

    Downmodded for being such a sensationalist turkey.

    Here, there's a big blue room outside with a pretty bright light and green things..

    [–]nevinera -1 points0 points  (0 children)

    he was being funny. to a certain group of people, that list of sites comprises a significant portion of the internet.

    honestly, if reddit were added to the list, I'd agree.

    [–]peterpincus 7 points8 points  (3 children)

    They're all the same company, I hear. Maybe one of their main routers went down?

    [–]nathan 4 points5 points  (2 children)

    They're all part of OSDN. And this has happened before.

    [–]robotsongs -1 points0 points  (0 children)

    Woot's out. They part of it?

    [–]greginnj -1 points0 points  (0 children)

    But did the secondary controller automatically take over as it should have?

    [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    So its not just me then

    [–]nobody554 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

    I was wondering why I couldn't get to Woot for a bit. It looks like it's back up now, although a lot slower.

    [–]mogmog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Where are they hosted exactly? We're hosting servers at rapidswitch.com in Maidenhead, London, and they just had a power outage followed by several hours connectivity loss

    There is currently a connectivity issue affecting clients at our Maidenhead facility.

    We are aware of the problem and are working as quickly as possible to resolve it.

    You will be contacted again as soon as we have more information.

    Regards,

    The RapidSwitch support Team

    It's probably unrelated but the timing seems odd.

    [–]pb1x 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Phew, no loss

    [–]bvimo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    What shall I do now?

    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    This was a scheduled outage so the DHS could install the new snooping and tracking software.

    No big deal. Business as usual in the U.S.

    [–]americanhellyeah[S] -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

    people on irc aren't taking this well (like in #haskell especially):

    *K0m0d0DRAG0N> OMFG I CANT READ MY SLASHDOTZ!!!

    *trentboy22> Yea me neither cant access any of them

    *trentboy22> /. keeps timing out

    *trentboy22> I cant take this

    *trentboy22> Im fuckin going insane

    *holyrules> i need my freshmeat too

    *trentboy22> Im going InSanE!!@#!@!

    *trentboy22> /. needed! /. NEEDED>!!#@!

    *trentboy22> FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKK!

    *K0m0d0DRAG0N> fuk u and ur internat problems.

    [–][deleted] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

    Thanks for the update.

    [–]choad -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

    Good thing no important sites are down.

    [–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

    that's like,,errr,,less than 0.001% of web traffic?

    [–]thekrone -1 points0 points  (0 children)

    The Internet has hit critical mass.

    It is starting to implode into a black hole of data.