Lobsters is 11 today
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Lobsters is 11 today
Hey folks,
Lobsters launched 11 years ago today.
In that time our community of 16,009 users have submitted 96,480 stories, written 435,158 comments, and cast 2,882,419 votes. More detailed numbers and trends are visible at /stats.
Also, since 2017, our chat room has been moderated by 355e3b and aleph (Church on IRC). They’re now also mods on the site, and I’m very glad to have their help and judgment here as well.
Previously: 2013 2016 2017 2019 2020 2021 2022
As I say every year, it’s a good time to look back at the top stories of the year or all time, or review the comments and stories you’ve upvoted. What were your favorites?
What were your favorites?
I can’t point to a specific story or comment, but more to a general thing that people here can (usually) disagree without hostility. A couple of weeks ago I had a long discussion about the merits of permissive licensing with someone who has completely the opposite view to me (I couldn’t find it in a quick search, but the exact post isn’t very important) and, at no point, did I feel that I was wasting my time trying to explain my point of view, or that I was being attacked. That’s pretty common here but it’s very rare in most of the rest of the web. Even in the ‘good old days’ of Slashdot (before about 2003), it was good because quite a lot of threads were like that, not because most were. I can’t understate how great that is.
Many thanks to the mods who keep this a community and not a cesspool.
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I had the mispleasure of visiting Hacker News a couple times over the past month and every time it’s shocking the fall in quality of discussion since I joined it in 2018. I’m glad that this place is still small and moderatable, having just been invited myself a month or so ago.
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Good lord, how far Slashdot fell. Honestly lobste.rs is better than Slashdot ever was, I think the invitation system really helps.
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Good lord, how far Slashdot fell
I remember when Slashdot had a load of active F/OSS contributors. There were gems like the time someone asked why Apple didn’t just use X11 and someone from Apple’s graphics team replied with a list of all of the things that they’d have needed to add to X11 to make it do the things Quartz did and that at the end they’d have been using none of the core bits of X11 and 100% extensions (X11 subsequently gained almost all of those things as extensions and the end result was, indeed, quite clunky). Even then, there were a lot of trolls, including a load of copypasta nonsense (things like the ‘NetCraft confirms it, BSD is dying’ thing were common even then, for example, as were people posting vaguely plausible things with goatse.cx links).
Even at its height, Slashdot was nowhere near as pleasant as this place, but it became awful. Soylent News looked promising briefly but rapidly became a ‘freedom means the freedom to be an asshat to everyone’ dystopia. I didn’t learn about this place until a friend mentioned seeing a Verona thing here in early 2020 and it was such a refreshing change.
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Hey, look, I like lobste.rs as much as the next lobster, but it’s not going to be in the same league as Slashdot until someone asks the love of their life to marry them.
(Background info because *checks calendar* shit no wonder my back hurts all the time…)
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I can’t point to a specific story or comment, but more to a general thing that people here can (usually) disagree without hostility.
ugh. whatever.
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(I couldn’t find it in a quick search, but the exact post isn’t very important)
Not very important, but here: https://lobste.rs/s/tgj1he/write_free_software#c_efy8yy
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