Creeva’s World 2.0

I’ve been a Slash­dot mem­ber for years (I would show you my uber l33t low(er) num­ber but I can’t find the pass­word).   The other account has very lit­tle in the way of com­ments since I’ve been more of a  reader then a com­menter.   Think­ing that Slash­dot really man­aged to get inroads as an open source news site it’s odd that they are essen­tially stuck in the same mind­set as they were about 10 years ago.

I made a dis­cover today as I made a com­ment and wanted to start inter­act­ing with the com­mu­nity more.    It seems you can’t get some­thing as sim­ple as an RSS feed of your com­ments out of the site.   Can’t get your posted com­ments e-mailed to you on sub­mis­sion (you can get replies to your mes­sage mailed — go fig­ure).   Can’t track your friends com­ments via an RSS feed or mail notification.

Now I can track friends, news, shouts, com­ments, and more on Digg.  Slash­dot, how­ever, only allows me a feed of the lat­est news.   I may be wrong and maybe it’s a whole lot eas­ier then I’m let­ting on, but there seems to be no easy way to do it.   I did man­age to copy the com­ment I made today to coCom­ment — viva com­ment sav­ing — but I would have pre­ferred to pull it out myself and con­trol my data.   If coCom­ment natively sup­ported Slash­dot I prob­a­bly wouldn’t mind or even have noticed.   But it doesn’t (I don’t blame coComment).

Slash­dot needs to get with the times and allow me to move my data from their servers.  If I write a thought I should be able to pull it out via at the very least as an RSS feed.   While I can see why they don’t allow to delete com­ments, it’s just one more con­straint that they put on your data (I don’t think users should be able to delete com­ments in a forum such as this, but thought it should be noted.)

Slash­dot, please join the Data Porta­bil­ity Group.