Comments

1
Livejournal had a friends function years before Digg even came along.
2
Huzzah! One less stupid SHARE UPVOTE RETWEET LIKE THIS ON ONE OF TEN DIFFERENT REDUDNANT SERVICES link cluttering up webpages.
3
I think I have an account on Digg but got bored by it so fast that it never really got used.

Friendster ftw! (1)

(1) = based on Asian usage as a metric for worldwide adoption, not US usage, duh.
4
This is why i will not buy overvalued facebook stock.
5
Hey slog IT, where the hell is

#1: my per-user ignore button
#2: threaded & nested comment replies
#3: email notifications of replies
#4: the ability for us to upvote and downvote each other for Lord of the Flies-like internet points
6
#5

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detai…

Google redesigned their Chrome store pages and totally ruined my screenshot, but you get the idea.

The GreaseMonkey version has commenter filtering, though I haven't tested it with recent versions of Firefox.

I can't believe I ever read Slog with flat comments.
7
Good questions ftw by Joe @5.

Although I can think how a lot of our commenters would overuse every single one of those functions and hammer your servers till they squeaked as if they'd been struck by lightning on a non-UPS single-striped drive without a backup.

you are running RAID 5 with 8 TB drives like most people, right?
8
@6 mother of god
9
Not a single mention of Kevin Rose? You've missed the story, then.
10
Digg ruled the internet? Where was I?
11
@3, Facebook in Asia = 192 million users; the new Friendster, which is a gaming platform and not a straightforward social-networking site, = 0.5 million.

As usual you couldn't be more wrong if you showed up at a party covered from head to toe in human excrement.
12
Whether it's 500,000 or $16 million, if you ignore the pump and dump inflation from the period with the vulture capitalists, that a cistern full of cash for something that is just a web database with some ajax controls.

With today's tools like JQuery, it could be written in a week and hosted on a cloud backend like Amazon.

Far from being a repudiation of social media, it is a sign of the incredible revenue value that is available...
13
@6, @1 - That plug-in is awesome. Thanks.

(Sorry, @1 - I referenced you here just to see what the plug-in does does with multiple references.)
14
@9 you've got it
15
#13, in case you didn't figure it out, it will nest the comment under both. The first instance will be visible and the subsequent ones will be collapsed but expandable. Just watch for collapsed comments with "The comment above is nested elsewhere" that aren't on the root level. That means they replied to multiple posts and it's probably worth expanding again for context.

There are, of course, false positives like Joe's list. But in a year of reading Slog like this, it hasn't bothered me.
16

Geeking Out for a minute:

For small businesses: Hardware RAID can bite really really badly. If Raid card dies in certain ways: the resulting. RAIG (redundant array of inexpensive garbage) is unpleasant.

If you can afford the space I'm a bigger fan of software RAID 1 or, if the speed isn't too big an issue, Software RAID 5. In either case any old PC will do in a pinch if enough disks are intact. In Raid 1 case: that's 1

...and of course a decade of SLOG comments are small enough to fit on a thumb drive in any case.

Please wait...

Comments are closed.

Commenting on this item is available only to members of the site. You can sign in here or create an account here.


Add a comment
Preview

By posting this comment, you are agreeing to our Terms of Use.