Macslash: what happened?

Written by Brandon

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Unfortunately, nothing happened. The premier community geek site for Mac users has not changed, improved, or done much of anything in years. It is based on an ancient version of slashcode, the software that powers Slashdot. There have been countless advances in Slashcode and the Internet since the last time MacSlash did anything significant to its site other than adding more advertisements. We have had Mac OS X, iPod, Google’s IPO, and MySpace since I joined MacSlash. Slashdot itself has changed a lot and continues to try new things while MacSlash is stuck in some time in the past where internet communities were geeky and experimental. Successful Mac community sites spring up every year, further decreaing MacSlash’s user base. I don’t know what the owners have been thinking over the years. Perhaps they are bored and moved on to better things. Maybe they are too indecisive to continue in some direction. Any direction would be better than not moving at all.

All of this leads to the state of MacSlash today. The website now has pop-up ads and a tiny community of readers who actually comment on posts. Posts come at most every few day, most of which are mundane questions directed at the readership. Slashdot answered the need for a modern version of MacSlash by creating an Apple section. Portions of the MacSlash community shook their fists, but really, Slashdot did everyone a favor and pointed out directly how little Macslash offers while presenting a simple, successful alternative.

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2 Responses to “Macslash: what happened?”

  1. Adam Says:
    July 30th, 2007 at 3:42 pm

    I agree. I check in with MacSlash every so often, but it’s second to my other news sites. They often have bad Ask MacSlash questions and do a copy and paste of everything that shows up in Software Update. They have a small and shrinking community, but the site could easily be salvaged with some updates to the site and more frequent news posts with more substance.

  2. Antonio Says:
    August 2nd, 2007 at 9:39 pm

    You all know I am new ro macs, But i do agree, Why do any groups that want to help macs with their coolness alway end up hurting Mac in the end. So very sad that the world has be come this way. And even more sad is the slashdot in gerneral has gone way down hill. I hate to say it but maybe all Slash need to be ¨taken out to pasture”.

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