Man, Mozilla's got two features up at slashdot.org today. That makes 19 Mozilla-topic slashdot items in the last month. Maybe it's time for them to create a http://mozilla.slashdot.org. They've done apple.slashdot.org for Apple-related stories which seem to average about 1 a day (though I highly doubt they were posting that many Apple stories before it had it's own section). I wonder what that magic level is. I should send another email to Rob and ask. If we get our own top level, then we'd need a good batch of Mozilla-related topics. I'd start with one for each of our products. That would probably be Firefox, Thunderbird, the Mozilla application suite, Bugzilla, and possibly another for Mozilla Tools. Tools might include Bonsai, Tinderbox, Doctor, and any other webtools we have. After those, maybe there'd be one for Mozilla-based 3rd-party apps and extensions or themes. What do you all think? Should we petition for http://mozilla.slashdot.org ;-) ?
Posted by asa at July 12, 2004 11:39 AMIt's a nice idea, but I think MozillaZine does a good job already :)
Posted by: Neil T. on July 12, 2004 12:17 PMBah... Mozilla has a topic, that's good enough.
If we're going to do anything with Slashdot, fixing Firefox so it renders their tables properly would be a good start :) (bug 217527)
Posted by: michaell on July 12, 2004 12:19 PMWhat would it hurt? Mozilla (other than Linux, duh) is the premier open source project. What would a little more exposure hurt? I don't frequent /. all that much, but I would start if there were a mozilla.slashdot.org to go to!
I say go for it, more info on mozilla (which i'm assuming these stories that you talked about would provide) can't be that bad! Whats the worst that could happen, they tell you no?
Posted by: Neil Paris on July 12, 2004 12:54 PMI've never had much luck submitting articles to SlashDot. I submitted an article about the death of the grandfather of ASCII and it was rejected a full day before Slashdot decided they'd let somebody with a known name submit the same article topic.
Posted by: Brant Gurganus on July 12, 2004 01:14 PMI'm game.
Posted by: Robert J. Accettura on July 12, 2004 01:28 PMHaving a section might reduce the number of Mozilla articles posted on the Slashdot front page.
Posted by: Jesse Ruderman on July 12, 2004 03:10 PMJesse is probably right. It would probably mean a lot less exposure, many stories would only be seen by those already interested in Mozilla.
An indication: check the number of replies to stories posted only on science.slashdot.org, and compare to science articles that also went on the /. frontpage.
Posted by: Av on July 12, 2004 03:23 PMHeh, I would know a good slashdot story:
Mozilla is finally rendering slashdot the way it is supposed to (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246382)
(I hope you don't mind my sarcasm, it was meant in a friendly way. Slashdot has some really prehistoric html anyway)
Posted by: Martijn on July 12, 2004 03:39 PMAsa points out that there are numerous stories that would never make it to the frontpage. Those would get much more audience than mozillazine gets now anyway.
And: mozillazine getting /.ed everyday maybe is a good thing. Don`t ya think?
I wouldn't frequent Slashdot until they got rid of all that tag-soup crap. This isn't some sort of high-and-mighty tag-soup boycott; I'm just going on the fact that whenever I stumbled across El Reg pre-redesign, I left ASAP; now it's one of my favourites (u, lowercase F). Maybe it's the 100%-width layout (it may well also be that I'm now a more proficient user of Adblock).
Anywho, surely there should be a community subsection, for stories such as the Thousand Reviews (that sounds like a parable from the Book of Mozilla to me).
Posted by: Greg K Nicholson on July 12, 2004 04:46 PMI agree with Jesse on this one, it's much better to get the exposure from the main page of /. I openly admit that I never go into any of the special "sections" on slashdot, that I just use Slashzilla to check the headlines, and read them. If it doesn't make it to the front page, I don't even bother. I am quite sure the majority of slashdot readers are the same way.
Posted by: Tristor on July 12, 2004 11:56 PMYet another article:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/13/1247203&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=154&tid=172&tid=95