I really, really hope this is good news. I miss the actual "News for nerds" ethos that brought me here, and I've waded through a lot of sponsored "posts" and clickbait to sift out the kernels of actual news that remain.
New/. overlords? Get this site back to "News for nerds" and news that matters, and you'll keep me here.
I don't believe it. Is Slashdot going to stop those ridiculous paid links to forbes.com? What about the relentless left-wing social justice stories that blame nerds for everything wrong in the world? What about constant news-today-gone-tomorrow political stories that are general news, at best? I don't see any of those going away under any kind of new management. Irritating as fuck content has been around since the Jon Katz stories wouldn't stop appearing.
The deal closed less than 24 hours ago. We're going to look at all options in order to improve the experience. And, no, that doesn't mean we're going to roll out a crappy new interface without listening to user feedback. We want to make sure we get it right.
Could you get feedback from us "veterans" that have been reading/. for the past, say, 15 years?
i.e. Some of the things I'd like to see fixed:
- Unicode support - Fix the broken "lameness filter" -- You can't even post a reasonable length of code with it, nor provide a list of bullet points with short sentences. - No more StartsWithAShill and other trolls - Allow older accounts who have good standing being able to post faster. The 4 minute time-out is archaic compared to reddit
- Unicode support: We can put in a few more codes. But lets not get crazy here. We wouldn't want to really mess things up too much. The problem with some more modern sites is they get messy allowing people to be too creative in what characters they use. Slashdot is more of read the text. Not make it fanciful. A few extra characters say for mathematics could be useful though.
- Fix the broken "lameness filter": This is Slashdot not Stack Exchange. posting long code will not help explain your point. While I
- Allow older accounts...: Ohh you used a free web site longer then someone else. Go pat yourself on the back, and bask in your mountains of participation trophies.
The point is that it's not an account that was run up to good karma recently. I'm not sure "older" has to mean "from the early days. But karma alone may not be enough.
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New /. overlords? Get this site back to "News for nerds" and news that matters, and you'll keep me here.
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Could you get feedback from us "veterans" that have been reading /. for the past, say, 15 years?
i.e. Some of the things I'd like to see fixed:
- Unicode support
- Fix the broken "lameness filter" -- You can't even post a reasonable length of code with it, nor provide a list of bullet points with short sentences.
- No more StartsWithAShill and other trolls
- Allow older accounts who have good standing being able to post faster. The 4 minute time-out is archaic compared to reddit
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- Allow older accounts...: Ohh you used a free web site longer then someone else. Go pat yourself on the back, and bask in your mountains of participation trophies.
The point is that it's not an account that was run up to good karma recently. I'm not sure "older" has to mean "from the early days. But karma alone may not be enough.