Dear poster, as you might have noticed: the readers are already "keeping it coming". Perhaps the readers haven't thoroughly communicated it enough: "Fuck Beta".
At first I didn't hate it, but then I tried to, and actually did reply to a few comments, and WTF they've broken the discussion system? Also I can't see anyone's userid# damnit, what's the point in having a low six digit userid# if I can't subtly flaunt it? Really...
Also hotgrits and natalie portman.
Lol: Slashdot in 2014 will be an example of how to Kill a thriving, decades-old community INSTANTLY (the day it goes live) by combining major Waterfall project planning and femme designers who have sway over the developers.
Or you think they could learn from the reworking of Google News back in 2010 [asktog.com]. I took a tour of the beta. It has that whitespace disease that lots of UI designers seem to have contracted from Windows 8, and they've done a really good job at stripping much of the information out of it.
As for this "let's retarget the site for a wider audience" marketing crap, I'll say what I've said before when this "wider audience" idea came up: The kiddies can go elsewhere.
At first I didn't hate it, but then I tried to, and actually did reply to a few comments, and WTF they've broken the discussion system? Also I can't see anyone's userid# damnit, what's the point in having a low six digit userid# if I can't subtly flaunt it? Really... Also hotgrits and natalie portman.
Pouring hot grits over a petrified Natalie Portman. Dang you six digit kids.
Dang, I was going to register my displeasure by ebaying my Slashdot account for the three-digit e-peen. But I guess if they don't show the digits I shouldn't bother now.
If I wasn't so tired from shoveling snow I would work out some mathematically logical rational for low userid posturing and posing. You know, based on numbers of orders of magnitude lower than the current newest userid, or perhaps one's place in the percentage of total all-time accounts (This would maximize my 115K bragging rights I think.) and then someone else would work up some clever theorem based on who's userids are prime and who has the lowest and highest prime userids and of course the cool 4 digit
Dear poster, as you might have noticed: the readers are already "keeping it coming". Perhaps the readers haven't thoroughly communicated it enough: "Fuck Beta".
Dear fellow Slashdot commenter, as you might have noticed, we have now Slashdotted ourselves with the "Fuck Beta" mandate taking over the entire moderation system. This has become obvious when "Fuck Beta" receives a resounding +5 Insightful score from the neighbors dog with a UID of yesterday.
As you might have not noticed, the response above was succinct and polite. I'm quite certain (along with the rest of the fucking planet) that the Slashdot moderators, systems administrators, network engineers, financ
Just fix the varous options so it's clear what they do, and add some help so it doesn't just say stuff like "use the small view" next to the small view option.
I've said it MANY times. IF the current beta comment UI and main page goes live and I am forced to jump through hoops to get out of it, the likelihood I will visit Slashdot again goes to 50/50% (I've been a daily reader / commenter for FIFTEEN YEARS NOW!)
IF this current UI is discarded, I can GUARAN-FUCKING-TEE you that I will NEVER visit beta.slashdot.org in its current ugliness. It is a User Interface DISASTER! Just look at the frickin comment boxes, how much wasted space, non-thick feminine fonts that ar
But I got to thinking, how about instead of sitting back and yelling like little kids, we act like the nerds we are? Grab the CSS from the classic site, grab the scripts, fire up GreaseMonkey and implement classic as a client side option. Would that be possible? I'm not nearly skilled enough in the black arts of web development to do it, but it seems to me the data model must be the same if they can run classic and beta alongside each other.
What about those of us that do not mind the new beta?
The only problem I see is people continuing to complain in other story threads. I say Salshdot should just move ahead and drop Beta in permanently, the sooner they do the sooner the whining stops.
Every website redesign as a ton of people crying as if the site had killed their whole family. It's just style dude(s) (and we ALL know it's males doing the whining).
Slashdot is one of the very few sites on which I have clicked on an advertisement and actually followed through and purchased what was being advertised.
Apologies to the editors of slashdot, it's not you but the guy in charge we want i.e. "Big Dick". Its out and swinging around and it's here to prove it can out piss anyone or the group. So far Big is keeping his head down, not very manly to start a shitstorm and not take public credit. Well Dick, your name will eventually become known and your reputation will suffer more for this delay. Grow a pair! (some apologies if its really the "Big Clit")
We have tar, feathers, pitchforks and torches, getting the pi
Fuck Beta (Score:-1, Flamebait)
Fuckbeta (Score:5, Insightful)
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Also I can't see anyone's userid# damnit
Definitely a priority-1 critical problem!
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Your sig is old-school awesome to this day.
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No sigs in the beta, either.
Lol: Slashdot in 2014 will be an example of how to Kill a thriving, decades-old community INSTANTLY (the day it goes live) by combining major Waterfall project planning and femme designers who have sway over the developers.
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3-digit is impressive, but I've single double digits around here once or twice ;)
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priority-1
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65535
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show off ! :)
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At first I didn't hate it, but then I tried to, and actually did reply to a few comments, and WTF they've broken the discussion system? Also I can't see anyone's userid# damnit, what's the point in having a low six digit userid# if I can't subtly flaunt it? Really...
Also hotgrits and natalie portman.
Pouring hot grits over a petrified Natalie Portman. Dang you six digit kids.
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Are you forgetting naked AND petrified. You five digit old timers are getting senile :)
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Right now, we need the "IF I EVER MEET YOU, I WILL KICK YOUR ASS" guy.
He'd show the Beta team what's what.
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Are people really flaunting six digit user ids? Wow, I've been away from slashdot too long. Stupid baby, being all needy.
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Baby? A fourdigiter? You're talking about your grand-grandson, right?
(Or maybe you're the helpful spirit of the baby's ancestor that watches over him while he sleeps!)
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"subtly flaunt it"? Screw that. I got a low-5-digit ID, baby! Read it and weep! Go on, brag. It will make you feel good. :-)
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Damn, nothing worse than someone else beating you to the punchline... :p
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Also I can't see anyone's userid# damnit, what's the point in having a low six digit userid# if I can't subtly flaunt it? Really...
Really? They're up to SIX digits now? Been away a while
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So it has come to this, a six! digit uid is considered a low uid now?
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So it has come to this, a six! digit uid is considered a low uid now?
Finally!
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Dang, I was going to register my displeasure by ebaying my Slashdot account for the three-digit e-peen. But I guess if they don't show the digits I shouldn't bother now.
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Fuck slashdot beta!
Amen, Brother!
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Surely we don't need to be so extreme in our expression.
I think we can do all the damage we need to with a simple statement:
"It looks like Windows 8.1 as a web site."
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Dear poster, as you might have noticed: the readers are already "keeping it coming". Perhaps the readers haven't thoroughly communicated it enough: "Fuck Beta".
Dear fellow Slashdot commenter, as you might have noticed, we have now Slashdotted ourselves with the "Fuck Beta" mandate taking over the entire moderation system. This has become obvious when "Fuck Beta" receives a resounding +5 Insightful score from the neighbors dog with a UID of yesterday.
As you might have not noticed, the response above was succinct and polite. I'm quite certain (along with the rest of the fucking planet) that the Slashdot moderators, systems administrators, network engineers, financ
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you prefer one of the other /. memes??? For Profit, Natalie Portman's Hot Grits say "Fuck Beta"
It'll die down of its own accord, until then chill and enjoy the fireworks.
oh yes I nearly forgot: FUCK BETA
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If it is not broken, do NOT fix it!
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Just fix the varous options so it's clear what they do, and add some help so it doesn't just say stuff like "use the small view" next to the small view option.
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I've said it MANY times. IF the current beta comment UI and main page goes live and I am forced to jump through hoops to get out of it, the likelihood I will visit Slashdot again goes to 50/50% (I've been a daily reader / commenter for FIFTEEN YEARS NOW!)
IF this current UI is discarded, I can GUARAN-FUCKING-TEE you that I will NEVER visit beta.slashdot.org in its current ugliness. It is a User Interface DISASTER! Just look at the frickin comment boxes, how much wasted space, non-thick feminine fonts that ar
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So I tried loading this story on beta.slashdot.org, and this is what I got in the comments section, instead of comments:
Shazbot! We ran into some trouble getting the comments.
Try again... na-nu, na-nu!
Um WHAT THE FUCK?! Is that English or *BABY*?! See? That's just way too immature for me. What are you developers? 5 years old?
I am very glad I turned down the Senior Slashdot Dev position offer in 2009.
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Google for "Mork from Ork".
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Sorry dude, it's a low-UID joke.
Actually, it's more of a late 70's pop-culture reference... BUT YOU WEREN'T THERE, MAN!
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I agree, fuck the beta.
But I got to thinking, how about instead of sitting back and yelling like little kids, we act like the nerds we are? Grab the CSS from the classic site, grab the scripts, fire up GreaseMonkey and implement classic as a client side option. Would that be possible? I'm not nearly skilled enough in the black arts of web development to do it, but it seems to me the data model must be the same if they can run classic and beta alongside each other.
fuck javascript (Score:1)
Basic functionality without javascript, that's what we need.
I like it, drop it in NOW (Score:2)
What about those of us that do not mind the new beta?
The only problem I see is people continuing to complain in other story threads. I say Salshdot should just move ahead and drop Beta in permanently, the sooner they do the sooner the whining stops.
Every website redesign as a ton of people crying as if the site had killed their whole family. It's just style dude(s) (and we ALL know it's males doing the whining).
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Slashdot is one of the very few sites on which I have clicked on an advertisement and actually followed through and purchased what was being advertised.
Please call the "Big Dick" (Score:1)
We have tar, feathers, pitchforks and torches, getting the pi
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While at it, FUCK CmdrTaco as well, for cashing out.