I and every software / IT person I know have abandoned it in the last year or two. It's not worth the time. We only stayed with the site for so long because of the community.
Exactly. /. was, once upon a time, decent, and I included it in my rotation.
It slid downhill, but I did still check in every once in a while. But some time recently it passed my political-silly threshold. So I stopped going entirely. Which probably further contributed to the decline (in the same sense that a raindrop contributes to a storm).
I and every software / IT person I know have abandoned it in the last year or two. It's not worth the time. We only stayed with the site for so long because of the community.
Exactly. /. was, once upon a time, decent, and I included it in my rotation.
It slid downhill, but I did still check in every once in a while. But some time recently it passed my political-silly threshold. So I stopped going entirely. Which probably further contributed to the decline (in the same sense that a raindrop contributes to a storm).