Slashdot Discussions Now Include Roulette Video Chat 192
It's been a long time coming, but we're pleased to announce the latest updates to our discussion software. We've been paying a lot of attention to what other websites have been doing in the space, and as we are only too happy to steal good ideas, from now on all Slashdot stories will now be accompanied by a Roulette-style webcam video chat. In testing, we've discovered that Slashdot users are amazingly likely to engage in informative, troll-free discussion when presented with the video image of one of their peers. This new addition to Slashdot nicely rounds out and improves the discussion experience for all users.
that's the explanation (Score:3, Insightful)
This is what they've been doing instead of fixing the CSS problems on Idle (or simply removing it.)
I know this is an April Fool's joke, but ... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Pretty Funny Videos (Score:5, Insightful)
Well let's look I'm done with slashdot for the day.
Okay I admit it - The videos were funny at first, but now I'd like to be able to turn them off, and nobody seems to have included that ability.
God, I hope this is an April Fools joke (Score:1, Insightful)
If not, how do I turn this damn thing off?
Re:Pretty Funny Videos (Score:3, Insightful)
>>It's NOT funny when I'm on a slow connection and slashdot is stealing it, and I have no way to turn this shit off.
Come on. Any slashdot reader should know how to turn of flash. If you really don't know please turn in your geek card.
>>It's NOT funny when I'm at work, and the admin wants to know why I streaming mega-videos & tying up work servers.
Tying up work servers? That would be interesting but really, your browser should newer connect to any work server. (Proxy server excluded, but a proxy server should not have any problem handling a small video stream).
And I know I have been trolled, but even trolls need to eat, and this is the only day they can do that for free.
Re:Flashblock (Score:3, Insightful)
IE6. It's the only thing my employer lets me run.
I can think of three solutions:
Re:Flashblock (Score:1, Insightful)
So start actually working then instead of bitching at slashdot.
Thanks CmdrTaco (Score:2, Insightful)
It's new features like these that keep the site fresh. srsly
Re:that's the explanation (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Flashblock (Score:3, Insightful)
Actually, this prank pushed me over the edge to actually install flashblock :)