I'd like less features, not because I hate features, but because they usually add more crap which needs to be loaded.
I'd love it if you got rid of the whole hiding comments thing, for example. It plays hell with searching and scrolling. Just show 'em all. That'll help you with flagging inappropriate, anyhow. You'll get a lot more feedback if you put everything in front of everyone's eyeballs.
Slashdot has never been a place I would point someone at looking for a well-formed webpage, but over the years it just keeps getting worse. After the last 'upgrade' the site is completely unusable without blocking the javascript. It really is ridiculous. A tech site should really learn to use HTML and generate webpages.
I have logged in to post for the first time in years. Why haven't I logged in in years? BECAUSE of all of this crap.
There seems to be a contest by the maintainers of this site to illustrate as many ways as possible that Web 2.0 can be used to annoy users, and the horrendous misuse of AJAX on this website is culprit number one.
It should not take half a dozen clicks to see all the comments on a page. I used to come here for the comments, so hiding them is a large part of why I don't come h
Simpler, less AJAX (Score:4, Interesting)
I'd like it to load fast and use a LOT less AJAX.
I'd like less features, not because I hate features, but because they usually add more crap which needs to be loaded.
I'd love it if you got rid of the whole hiding comments thing, for example. It plays hell with searching and scrolling. Just show 'em all. That'll help you with flagging inappropriate, anyhow. You'll get a lot more feedback if you put everything in front of everyone's eyeballs.
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YES.
Slashdot has never been a place I would point someone at looking for a well-formed webpage, but over the years it just keeps getting worse. After the last 'upgrade' the site is completely unusable without blocking the javascript. It really is ridiculous. A tech site should really learn to use HTML and generate webpages.
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ALL OF THE ABOVE.
I have logged in to post for the first time in years. Why haven't I logged in in years? BECAUSE of all of this crap.
There seems to be a contest by the maintainers of this site to illustrate as many ways as possible that Web 2.0 can be used to annoy users, and the horrendous misuse of AJAX on this website is culprit number one.