Current Slashdot flows to my display and still looks good. New Slashdot is yet another "cramped canyon".
It'll be sad if Slashdot succumbs to the "looks good on our iPad so it's done" mentality. If nothing else, sniff the screen size and give us the option of flowing to the screen like it does now.
It's probably too much to ask for you to just... you know... fire everybody except the maintainers. If you want to task a bunch of web developers, how about tasking them with something that would be truly innovative--such as a UI that has reasonable defaults (wide on my wide screen, narrow on somebody else's phone) and that lets us hackers out in the peanut gallery configure it a bit ourselves.
That should be your real, new, innovative design principle: Let the user configure it as much as possible.
In fact, that's what HTML and browsers were supposed to do in the first place. HTML was never intended to be a layout language. The view was supposed to be configurable by the end user in a lot of ways. The web strayed from that, so now we get designers fucking over users, forcing them into a one size fits $foo design, where $foo is usually the set of users that are thought to be the most easily monetized.
Current Slashdot flows to my display and still looks good. New Slashdot is yet another "cramped canyon".
It'll be sad if Slashdot succumbs to the "looks good on our iPad so it's done" mentality.
Actually, looking at the beta again, I bet this is exactly what happened.
Someone was tasked to make/. look good on a tablet and came up with this. That being said,/. mobile version actually looks pretty good on tablets, so I think they just had a bad batch of crack when they were making the decision.
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Another cramped canyon (Score:5, Insightful)
Current Slashdot flows to my display and still looks good. New Slashdot is yet another "cramped canyon".
It'll be sad if Slashdot succumbs to the "looks good on our iPad so it's done" mentality. If nothing else, sniff the screen size and give us the option of flowing to the screen like it does now.
It's probably too much to ask for you to just... you know... fire everybody except the maintainers. If you want to task a bunch of web developers, how about tasking them with something that would be truly innovative--such as a UI that has reasonable defaults (wide on my wide screen, narrow on somebody else's phone) and that lets us hackers out in the peanut gallery configure it a bit ourselves.
That should be your real, new, innovative design principle: Let the user configure it as much as possible.
In fact, that's what HTML and browsers were supposed to do in the first place. HTML was never intended to be a layout language. The view was supposed to be configurable by the end user in a lot of ways. The web strayed from that, so now we get designers fucking over users, forcing them into a one size fits $foo design, where $foo is usually the set of users that are thought to be the most easily monetized.
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Current Slashdot flows to my display and still looks good. New Slashdot is yet another "cramped canyon".
It'll be sad if Slashdot succumbs to the "looks good on our iPad so it's done" mentality.
Actually, looking at the beta again, I bet this is exactly what happened.
Someone was tasked to make /. look good on a tablet and came up with this. That being said, /. mobile version actually looks pretty good on tablets, so I think they just had a bad batch of crack when they were making the decision.