Slashdot website down
Linux lovers' favourite website Slashdot.org has been unavailable all morning. Sister sites SourceForge and Freshmeat are also down.
Attempts to visit the site are met with a "taking too long to respond" message.
Slashdot was formerly famous for the "Slashdot effect" or slashdotting - when links from the site to smaller websites caused them to crash because of the unexpected huge number of visitors.
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Well, Slashdot was still down when I pressed "submit" on this story, but now, about 10 minutes later, Slashdot and Freshmeat are up. No explanations posted to the cause of the downtime as of yet.