Slashdot used to have a perfectly working front page for "today", plus specific URLs for the day before, the day before that, and so on. It used to employ some of the good principles of Roy Fielding's thesis on REST, where each page is a resource with a distinct address that makes sense. You could give someone a link and know exactly what they're seeing. Well no more.
Instead of that sane technical design, now we have some kind of utterly broken page expansion system linked through "Many More", and you never know what the hell you're looking at, and when you return from a nested page you're seeing something totally different. It's a technical disaster, and given that this pretends to be a technical site, its technical design is quite beyond the pale.
Bring back a bit of sane web technology please. Lose the totally unhelpful "Many More" which is a wholly broken design, and bring back dated pages.
Since "Many More" I'm often frustrated by not being able to navigate the article-stream in a meaningful way.
The feature I'm missing most (after getting rid of "Many More";-)) is a mode to read from old posts to the newer ones with current position saved between visits.
Since "Many More" I'm often frustrated by not being able to navigate the article-stream in a meaningful way.
The feature I'm missing most (after getting rid of "Many More";-)) is a mode to read from old posts to the newer ones with current position saved between visits.
Lose "Many More" link and provide per-date URLs (Score:5, Insightful)
Slashdot used to have a perfectly working front page for "today", plus specific URLs for the day before, the day before that, and so on. It used to employ some of the good principles of Roy Fielding's thesis on REST, where each page is a resource with a distinct address that makes sense. You could give someone a link and know exactly what they're seeing. Well no more.
Instead of that sane technical design, now we have some kind of utterly broken page expansion system linked through "Many More", and you never know what the hell you're looking at, and when you return from a nested page you're seeing something totally different. It's a technical disaster, and given that this pretends to be a technical site, its technical design is quite beyond the pale.
Bring back a bit of sane web technology please. Lose the totally unhelpful "Many More" which is a wholly broken design, and bring back dated pages.
Re: (Score:3, Interesting)
Since "Many More" I'm often frustrated by not being able to navigate the article-stream in a meaningful way.
The feature I'm missing most (after getting rid of "Many More" ;-)) is a mode to read from old posts to the newer ones with current position saved between visits.
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Since "Many More" I'm often frustrated by not being able to navigate the article-stream in a meaningful way.
The feature I'm missing most (after getting rid of "Many More" ;-)) is a mode to read from old posts to the newer ones with current position saved between visits.
hear, hear!
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Oh hell yes. I've been cursing slashdot regularly since they ruined the pagination.