damn_registrars's Journal: Have slashdot admins checked out for the last time?

When i was looking at my email today (yes, [e-mail] is real) I took a moment to check for slashdot-related mail in there. I noticed that there was an email that I sent to [e-mail] back in November when the message system was borked. Almost two months to the day and ... nothing.

While Taco was incompetent and irrelevant, he at least responded to email.

Probably too many complaints

[BarbaraHudson]

Probably too many complaints to respond to each one individually, especially since they got it working, then it died again the next weekend.

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[gmhowell]

Maybe it's just chrome, but I've never seen this site as broken as it currently is. I had to reply to a comment, because the fail of css has all kinds of crap covering up the button to let me make a top level comment.

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[BarbaraHudson]

If you think THIS is bad, try logging in with your username and password on a mobile device using either chrome of firefox. It's "umpossible". The keyboard gets hidden as soon as you type one letter.

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[damn_registrars]

I remember that the slashdot "mobile" site used to be a fool-proof way to crash my blackberry (back when I had one). I don't expect it to work much better on android (although oddly enough I recall the last time I used it on my android phone it did show a few things that it would ordinarily not show in firefox).

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[damn_registrars]

It is doing a fair bit of other weird rendering crap to me now as well. I wonder if maybe they have started pushing out some of the new "features" of beta on us in the hopes of nobody noticing?

If so, once all the users leave after the site becomes completely unusable, then yeah nobody will notice.

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[fustakrakich]

They are having layout issues right now. I've seen this before. They fix it eventually. As long as the archives remain untainted, intact, and accessible, it's all good.

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[damn_registrars]

As long as the archives remain untainted, intact, and accessible, it's all good.

Considering there has never been a functional search mechanism for them, how can you tell if they are still there or not? I would wager that >>99% of all the material here over 2 weeks old could disappear this afternoon and it wouldn't be noticed for years. The only way to keep track of old stuff is to keep bookmarking it or linking to it in newer stuff.

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[fustakrakich]

Forget the search engine and just use Google.

For indexed access:

http://slashdot.org/?issue=200... [slashdot.org]

issue=[yyyymmdd]

Unfortunately I cannot retrieve all the stories this way. It used to just roll back page by page, but they took that away. I doubt this will last much longer either. That, and if I discover they remove/edit comments, is when Slashdot will lose its real value.

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[damn_registrars]

That, and if I discover they remove/edit comments, is when Slashdot will lose its real value.

I agree that the discussions are (usually) the more valuable part of slashdot. However, since there is no functional way (using slashdot, google, or any other mechanism that I know of) to search comments by text, the archived comments aren't that enormously valuable unless you have some way of keeping track of them yourself. Once a comment is more than ~2 weeks old or so finding it again is a huge PITA. They should be retained, but they should also be searchable.

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[gmhowell]

They are having layout issues right now. I've seen this before. They fix it eventually. As long as the archives remain untainted, intact, and accessible, it's all good.

You forgot the scare quotes around the word "fix".

incompetent and irrelevant

[fustakrakich]

:-) Up to 11 you say?

Well, you're kinda dumb yourself.

Sorry, could only get it up to a six..

je suis Taco!