Your post here is a steaming pile because you know "Timothy" that You folks have absolutely NO intention of backing away from the new un-needed and useless "design" for the sake of "design" design. "Web Designers" and marketers have a lot in common, they want to foist "pretty" shit that serves no real benefit.
Hopfully Bruce Perens will reserect his Slashdot alternative that failed when Slashdot didn't SUCK as much as it does now.
the problem with the boycott is that 99%+ of the users aren't active contributors, just passive viewers. So a boycott won't change the viewership numbers very much. heck, most of the people who would boycott are probably no script/adblock anyway, so there's no lost impressions there.
Those passive viewers aren't coming for the fresh, hot-off-the-presses news. If enough of the active participants are ducking out and not posting in the famous slashdot discussions, they'll find something better to do.
Not *my* contributions, the discussions as a whole. There sure as hell isn't 3 million+ signups worth of value coming out of week-old stale "news". The common thread of the complaints all basically say the same thing: what the site offers by way of articles is pretty pale against other sites that do it much better, but/. has the community that brings them back.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Thursday February 06, 2014 @11:46PM (#46182561)
Actually the bigger problem here is both the comment #s and quality are way off from where they were 3-5 years ago. Quite frequently, it seems like whoever is left at/. does not have a clue. Even the infamous trolls don't even bother trolling anymore.
I suspect Dice looked at the general trajectory and decided they needed something to get some new blood in here.
It has. Maybe they should have looked for new ways to foster user-generated discussions. What else Slashdot have to offer, exactly? The stories are old, the summaries are often wrong, and the unique content is mediocre. Those three things can be changed without needing to change the layout, but the new management hasn't made any noticeable inroads at all.
Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way.
Slashdot BETA Sucks. (Score:5, Insightful)
Slashdot BETA Sucks.
Your post here is a steaming pile because you know "Timothy" that You folks have absolutely NO intention of backing away from the new un-needed and useless "design" for the sake of "design" design. "Web Designers" and marketers have a lot in common, they want to foist "pretty" shit that serves no real benefit.
Hopfully Bruce Perens will reserect his Slashdot alternative that failed when Slashdot didn't SUCK as much as it does now.
Join the boycott 10-17 February!
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the problem with the boycott is that 99%+ of the users aren't active contributors, just passive viewers. So a boycott won't change the viewership numbers very much. heck, most of the people who would boycott are probably no script/adblock anyway, so there's no lost impressions there.
this is why the protest works better
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Those passive viewers aren't coming for the fresh, hot-off-the-presses news. If enough of the active participants are ducking out and not posting in the famous slashdot discussions, they'll find something better to do.
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are you sure you're not overvaluing your own contributions? i love the convos, but i doubt they are a big deal outside of a small group of people.
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Not *my* contributions, the discussions as a whole. There sure as hell isn't 3 million+ signups worth of value coming out of week-old stale "news". The common thread of the complaints all basically say the same thing: what the site offers by way of articles is pretty pale against other sites that do it much better, but /. has the community that brings them back.
Re:Slashdot BETA Sucks. (Score:0)
Actually the bigger problem here is both the comment #s and quality are way off from where they were 3-5 years ago. Quite frequently, it seems like whoever is left at /. does not have a clue. Even the infamous trolls don't even bother trolling anymore.
I suspect Dice looked at the general trajectory and decided they needed something to get some new blood in here.
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It has. Maybe they should have looked for new ways to foster user-generated discussions. What else Slashdot have to offer, exactly? The stories are old, the summaries are often wrong, and the unique content is mediocre. Those three things can be changed without needing to change the layout, but the new management hasn't made any noticeable inroads at all.