If anyone does not understand the reference, "CmdrTaco" was the editor of Slashdot many years ago. Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Malda

If anyone does not understand the reference, "Slashdot" is a link-sharing site oriented at tech news, that was popular many years ago as HN is today.

https://slashdot.org

Ah, memories from 20 years ago. How time flies.

I wonder what new site, and what new euphemism, will replace the "hug of death" and "the orange site" in 2044?

(Hopefully not robots that go around actually hugging people to death…)

Was it not a mailing list before a site?

I let the next guy explain what a mailing list was.