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 ne
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 ne
Re:Lose "Many More" link and provide per-date URLs (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.
Re: (Score:2)
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!