Slashdot Coming Attractions

We've been busy at Slashdot. As you have probably noticed, we've added a couple of new Slashboxes recently:

• Most Discussed: Highlighting recent stories with the most active discussions
• This Day on Slashdot: Featuring the biggest Slashdot stories of the day all the way back to the beginning.

We also pushed through a number of fixes to the user experience and upgrades to the site infrastructure in recent months including:

• Upgrading Slashdot to modern hardware and new versions of MySQL and Apache
• Cleaning up the topics pages
• Improving methods for sharing submissions
• Thumbnails for articles with videos
• Flag-a-comment abuse reporting
• Removal of old and unused Slashboxes
• A much overdue overhauling of the FAQ
• Fixes to user preferences
• The launch of the Slashdot Hall of Fame (that little badge icon next to the logo)
• Fixes to the D2 comment system. Highlights include bug fixes to the comment score slider, a better abbreviated view (if you quote the parent, that's removed so people can see your first sentence instead), and general reliability improvements to the AJAX magic
• And many more...

In addition, we're working on modules to highlight top submissions and we've launched Slashdot TV at http://tv.slashdot.org/ . We plan on launching more in the weeks to come. Some of these new sections will feature original content that isn't normally run on the front page. We're also planning a new mobile experience and we'll need your feedback to help us with the look and usability. Our goal through all these changes is to make your Slashdot experience a good one. We are listening to your complaints and concerns and promise to keep giving you News for Nerds and Stuff that Matters.

So, readers, what do you want to see in the coming months?

Timeline

[BillCable]

Clearly you should switch to Timeline format for all content.

Re:Timeline

[miknix]

Like

Re:Unicode?

[Stides]

And we want to keep it that way, now get off my lawn.

Re:You really want to bring my machine to its knee

[felipekk]

It's the retribution. For years we've been Slashdotting all these websites who had some cool content to show us. Now it's time for retribution and Slashdot all the reader's computers.

Re:A bit late for April Fools, isn't it?

[LurkerXXX]

It was a request by all the vendors who pay for the slashvertisements we've had lately. Err, I mean 'stories'.

Re:My wish...

[TheRaven64]

That's there already. The ads are the ones posted on Slashdot.

Obligatory...

[_anomaly_]

In soviet Russia, Slashdot slashdots YOU.

Re:Bring Back April Fools!!

[Anonymous Coward]

When I came to Slashdot this year, I thought "SlashTV" was the Aprils Fools Joke...

I was wrong...