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With Slashdot, I was able to control that to a certain extent because the home page was rate-limited to humans making the call about what goes on that page. reddit can have 200 items on the home page. Slashdot we kept bounded to 10 or 15 [posts per day in the early years] and by the end we kept it bounded by 20 or 25. At some point that 31st story isn't really that much better. With more and more voices, you tend toward broader subjects. Eventually it becomes less and less interesting.
Slashdot Founder Rob Malda on Why There Won’t Be Another Hacker News - The Washington Post
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The old-fashioned models of character-building were hopelessly gendered.
How America Got Mean
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Tragically, even Tumblr’s commitment to the GIF is now in question. In 2015, it appeared to be unwavering: “The format is woefully outdated, and this begets massive, low quality animated images,” a post on Tumblr’s engineering blog read. “However, as the true ‘home of the gif,’ Tumblr isn’t ever giving up on your gif files!” This summer, though, even Tumblr started “experimenting with serving GIFs as MP4 videos” to a “small subset” of users, with the aim of making GIFs load faster. (Company blog posts discussing the change did advise artists that they could opt out of this conversion by adding a single transparent pixel to the first frame of their GIFs, breaking the conversion and thwarting the process.)
GIF 濒临死亡 - The Atlantic
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