The Sourceforge Operations Twitter feed says they've had some outages lately (including a DDOS attack) and that they're working on it:

https://twitter.com/sfnet_ops

Pretty sad, considering slashdot's traffic used to be a source of what "appeared" to be a DDOS attack because of all the traffic. It used to be the best source around for tech related news, now it mostly consists of reposts from various sites. I think it would have stayed relevant if it had been an entity of it's own, rather than being part of the whole SourceForge tragedy.

Ahh, that makes sense - thanks!

I stopped reading slashdot after CmdrTaco left, it just didn't have the same "bespoke hand crafted" feel to the content. HN / the twitters has been my person go-to since.

Consuming from twitter is like drinking from a genuine firehose, gives me nothing but gas and regrets. :D

Slashdot's back:

https://meta.slashdot.org/story/18/03/04/0428237/slashdot-ou...

Slow two days now. Lots of internal errors, no new content since Thursday.

I guess they won’t ever add decades overdue Unicode support after all, since ad revenue will be zero pretty soon.