A screen scraped version of Slashdot

January 6, 2004 10:22 PM

Alterslash is a screen-scraped version of Slashdot that improves on the original.
posted by holloway (10 comments total)

"Improves on" is my opinion, obviously.
posted by holloway at 10:24 PM on January 6, 2004

No, it's not just your opinion - it's as close to an objective fact as exists.
posted by Ryvar at 10:45 PM on January 6, 2004

Some guy named mathowie posted this before.
posted by brownpau at 10:58 PM on January 6, 2004

Personally, I prefer the original. Huge blue hyperlinks? 1997 called, they want their formatting back.
posted by Orange Goblin at 1:44 AM on January 7, 2004

Mathowie? Never heard of him, though an 8 letter name that fits in dos is kinda cool.

Alterslash has improved in lots of little ways over the last month, like RSS, and per-story noise graphs, and multiple CSS.

It's a good example of screen scraping done right. Often slashdot stories are misleading and it's not as easy to get the right idea about something from a glance.
posted by holloway at 2:32 AM on January 7, 2004

"Huge blue hyperlinks? 1997 called, they want their formatting back."

i'll be rocking the blue 'n purple combo 'TIL THE DAY I DIE.

you can tell 1997 to go to hell.
posted by lotsofno at 5:04 AM on January 7, 2004

I especially like reading those precious (+5, Troll) comments when they come up: rare works of art.
posted by brownpau at 7:07 AM on January 7, 2004

yeah i use this to keep up with the /., sifting through the real slashdot could be a fulltime job, and i know if i even tried, i'd lose mine
posted by yeahyeahyeahwhoo at 7:40 AM on January 7, 2004

I guess I missed this the first go-round, but I've added it to my browser's startup group. Thanks, holloway!
posted by crunchland at 3:54 PM on January 7, 2004

Yeah, this is how I keep up with Slashdot. Been using it for awhile now.
posted by pmurray63 at 7:55 PM on January 7, 2004