The H Shuts Down 94
TexasDex writes "After years of providing great news reporting to the open source community, including interviews, great Linux kernel update summaries, and even breaking the Skype spying story well before it was leaked, The H Online is closing down due to lack of profitability. I've checked them daily for years, so it's sad to see them go."
Such a shame (Score:5, Informative)
The H was probably one of the best tech/security sites around.
The writers and editors were well educated, rational and not prone to sensationalism like many others.
There was no fanboism; just impartial, well written journalism. A real "News for Nerds" site.
You'll be sorely missed, lads. Thanks for all the hard work.
You should RTFA more often :) (Score:5, Informative)
Their stories were posted on slashdot pretty regularly, at least weekly if I had to guess. I don't know how to search slashdot just for links in articles, but a general search [google.com] brings up quite a few of them.
So learn German (Score:5, Informative)
I believe that most of the stuff on H Online is also available through the newsticker of Heise (http://www.heise.de/newsticker) in German. Which should not be such a surprise considering that H Online is/was operated by Heise (their UK part in this case) as well.
Heise is the publisher who publishes for example the well respected computer magazine c't in Germany.
Re:So learn German (Score:5, Informative)
It is harder than you think.
I am a former editor of heise-online.co.uk, the site that became the H.
I *do* speak a little German - enough to read the headlines on the internal CMS and request translations of stuff that I thought would be interesting for English-speaking readers. Then the professionally-translated copy needed to be edited by a native English speaker - such as me or one of my colleagues - and the edited version checked over by another editor (because you cannot spot your own mistakes).
It's more labour-intensive (and thus, expensive) than you might think.
As for the site design, it's based off the German one - it's hosted on the same servers and managed through the same CMS. German people like a rather more conservative style of Web design than we are used to on the English-language Web. :-)