I don't think the site was hacked. The guy started a beta site and someone (one of his firends) posted it to slashdot. He got pissed off because the site was not professional and it was incomplete.

SOMEONE POSTED THIS TO SLASHDOT WITHOUT MY APPROVAL. IT IS AN UNFINISHED SITE. PLEASE CHECK BACK LATER FOR THE FINISHED VERSION.

THIS WAS NOT THE ORIGINAL SITE, IT WAS THROWN TOGETHER IN 5 MINUTES AS A DEMO. Please be respectful.
This is the "unhappy rant" he was referring to.

google cache
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache...rs.com/+&hl=en

www.slashdot.org is a news site for nerds... they didn't have very nice comments about the site... hense his rant.

Slashdot article
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...514240&tid=222

just in case you don't already know... having your site linked to slashdot can produce some very interesting results... as in your server instantly combusting into flames due to the extreme overhead (j/k of course). its basically a huge DDoS attack. A lot of sites don't make it past 5 minutes after getting posted. they become "unavailable".

This is known as the slashdot effect.

The Slashdot effect is a particular example of how a popular website can cause a smaller site to slow down or even temporarily close after causing a great increase in the number of visitors going to the smaller site. The huge influx of web traffic is a result of it being mentioned on Slashdot, a popular technology news and information site. Typically, less robust sites are unable to cope with the huge increase in traffic and become unavailable – either their bandwidth is consumed or their servers are unable to cope with the high strain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect