Editors, I am a long-time reader (like many, I lurked for years before signing up for an account), so I'm relatively used to/.'s somewhat quirky interface. But even I am often baffled. Do you ever just sit down with someone unfamiliar with Slashdot, and ask them to navigate around and accomplish certain tasks? Or explain to you, as best they understand, what certain things are, the logic behind the structure, etc?
Someday, I hope Slashdot adopts some kind of left-pane threaded view (like taking Google Group
I just wish I could find the setting to show the site as it was six or seven years ago. Bandwidth is cheap and my browser can cope with large pages, I don't want to see or click a "get more comments" button ever. I just want it to show every comment at my chosen score threshold by default.
Editors, non-snarky question: usability testing (Score:3)
Editors, I am a long-time reader (like many, I lurked for years before signing up for an account), so I'm relatively used to /.'s somewhat quirky interface. But even I am often baffled. Do you ever just sit down with someone unfamiliar with Slashdot, and ask them to navigate around and accomplish certain tasks? Or explain to you, as best they understand, what certain things are, the logic behind the structure, etc?
Someday, I hope Slashdot adopts some kind of left-pane threaded view (like taking Google Group
Re:Editors, non-snarky question: usability testing (Score:2)
I just wish I could find the setting to show the site as it was six or seven years ago. Bandwidth is cheap and my browser can cope with large pages, I don't want to see or click a "get more comments" button ever. I just want it to show every comment at my chosen score threshold by default.