Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief Rob Malda, better known as CmdrTaco, posted his on the website, which has always gone by the motto "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters".

An excerpt from his note:

"After 14 years and over 15,000 stories posted, it's finally time for me to say Good-Bye to Slashdot. I created this place with my best friends in a run down house while still in college. Since then it has grown to be read by more than a million people, and has served Billions and Billions of Pages (yes, in my head I hear the voice). During my tenure I have done my best to keep Slashdot firmly grounded in its origins, but now it's time for someone else to come aboard and find the *future*."

While he states in his brief that he doesn't yet have future plans set, he does admit that the changes to the internet in the last couple of decades are what have helped push him to his descision:

"The internet has changed dramatically since I started here, and that's part of my reason for leaving. For me, the Slashdot of today is fused to the Slashdot of the past. This makes it really hard to objectively consider the future of the site."