Hi, a couple thoughts here. First, thanks to timothy for reaching out like this - it's the result of the #fuckbeta protest, so good job to everybody. But if we have a better avenue for communicating our concerns then we can tone down the protesting I think. At least maybe not destroy the comment threads any more.
My biggest concern for the beta is it seems to destroy the tools needed for a robust commenting and conversation, including notification of new posts, easy ways to quote prior posts, easy way to lin
My biggest concern is that frankly, the beta just plain sucks. It sucks in every single possible way. I get that they're saying it isn't ready, but the concern for many of us isn't just that the beta is just bloody horrible now, but that the direction its going suggests that it will never be an adequate replacement for the current "classic" Slashdot.
The question is, "WHY does the beta suck?" I can point to a few key points.
1) White Space is noisy. As Noisy as overly dense is. Hard to read, hard to navigate... hard on eyes.
2) Dumbing down the interface is Dumb. What the beta does, is take take away the information needed to be intelligent. We don't need that, as we are (typically, mostly) bright, intelligent, capable people. We aren't your "http://www.nbcnews.com/" who wants pretty pictures. STOP IT.
3) Removing information is dumb. For example (glarin
They sprang that without any warning either. Went from a bunch of headlines in a reasonably compact area to a bunch of pictures with the headlines as captions splatted all over multiple screens worth of scrolling. Now I can't just scan headlines of articles and open several at once. I've got to scan the entire page and pick out the headlines and scroll to see more pictures+headlines.
Ugh.
Turing word: bothers In a sentence: What NBC News did to their layout bothers me.
Why? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Cue the flood of flame . . .
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Hi, a couple thoughts here. First, thanks to timothy for reaching out like this - it's the result of the #fuckbeta protest, so good job to everybody. But if we have a better avenue for communicating our concerns then we can tone down the protesting I think. At least maybe not destroy the comment threads any more.
My biggest concern for the beta is it seems to destroy the tools needed for a robust commenting and conversation, including notification of new posts, easy ways to quote prior posts, easy way to lin
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My biggest concern is that frankly, the beta just plain sucks. It sucks in every single possible way. I get that they're saying it isn't ready, but the concern for many of us isn't just that the beta is just bloody horrible now, but that the direction its going suggests that it will never be an adequate replacement for the current "classic" Slashdot.
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The question is, "WHY does the beta suck?" I can point to a few key points.
1) White Space is noisy. As Noisy as overly dense is. Hard to read, hard to navigate ... hard on eyes.
2) Dumbing down the interface is Dumb. What the beta does, is take take away the information needed to be intelligent. We don't need that, as we are (typically, mostly) bright, intelligent, capable people. We aren't your "http://www.nbcnews.com/" who wants pretty pictures. STOP IT.
3) Removing information is dumb. For example (glarin
Re:Why? (Score:2)
Holy hell that NBC site is just terrible! Perhaps even worse than the beta!
Jesus Christ - has the world forgotten how to build a decent website???
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They sprang that without any warning either. Went from a bunch of headlines in a reasonably compact area to a bunch of pictures with the headlines as captions splatted all over multiple screens worth of scrolling. Now I can't just scan headlines of articles and open several at once. I've got to scan the entire page and pick out the headlines and scroll to see more pictures+headlines.
Ugh.
Turing word: bothers
In a sentence: What NBC News did to their layout bothers me.
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It's like google images and google news collided and exploded all over the place!
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The ppl making the choices at the top of the government and most corporations
are not technology literate most of the time.
So when you have the ignorant deciding how technology is to be deployed
it tends to come across as ignorant often.
Think Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows ME....