Comments on: OSnews hacked. https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/01/04/osnews-hacked/ Fun with Virtualization Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:32:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/01/04/osnews-hacked/comment-page-1/#comment-206635 Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:32:14 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9165#comment-206635 I plan on doing this one way or another for quite some time!

But if this was osnews, this would have been locked. That long tail of content is SO important!!!

]]> By: Bruno https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/01/04/osnews-hacked/comment-page-1/#comment-206633 Sat, 05 Jan 2019 15:38:06 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9165#comment-206633 I hope you stick around, neozeed. I really enjoy your posts, no one does your kind of content.

]]> By: Malcolm https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/01/04/osnews-hacked/comment-page-1/#comment-206584 Fri, 04 Jan 2019 22:14:14 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9165#comment-206584 I don’t know what to think. I have an OSnews account from 2005 but was visiting it much earlier. I always wanted it to be a site full of practitioners or students who loved the technical details, kinda like lwn. That never really happened; obviously a site that loses money can’t hire engineers to write articles, and linking to news sites just doesn’t go that deep. It always frustrated me as someone employed in the field that I couldn’t contribute more without revealing corporate secrets, but it’s being able to communicate details that makes the community worthwhile.

Today I’ve ended up spending more time on https://lobste.rs which has an invite only membership system that basically works by logging onto IRC, sharing a portfolio of work, prove it really was you who did the work, and then somebody gives you an account. It may be a high bar but it means comments on the site are from real practitioners who actually want to understand exactly what happened and what’s “behind the news” rather than just the headlines. Unfortunately many of the people there are operating on technologies I know nothing about, but that’s the story of IT generally (the technology spectrum is much wider than it used to be.)

I hope OSnews recovers, but I fear that it has been struggling to have a vibrant community for a while and this may just do it in.

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