Bruce, once Slashdot Beta goes Live, I am OUT OF HERE, after frickin 15 years (most of it as a paying supporter), I am done. I have had 6+ months to mourn Dice's decision. Now I am looking for a new home.

Slashdot is the abusive husband, it's users, the battered wife.

Slashdot says, "We're listening, we're listening."

As they bash our heads against the wall with such a horrible new system.

Slashdot: Your gaslighting is just not working!

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.

Amen, Brother!

So I tried loading this story on beta.slashdot.org, and this is what I got in the comments section, instead of comments:

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.

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 are hard to see, etc.

Thanks to your warning, I have been able to mourn Slashdot's inevitable demise since the first beta.slashdot post many months ago. I have been on slashdot literally my entire adult life. I WILL mourn it.

But I will NOT EVEN VISIT beta.slashdot until the UI is substantially redone in a more masculine, clean cut way, like the current slashdot.org.

Hmm. I'm neither liberal nor conservative, and I do not see the evidence for Anthropogenic Global Warming (tho it does seem as though the Solar system is warming), however, I also see tons of evidence that genetically modified foods are deletrious to the biosphere, human health, etc.

What does that make me?

Wow! That means as a software developer, I must self-plagiarize all the time!

The SEC is only involved in *publicly traded* companies, so I don't see how kickstarter qualifies, UNLESS they're registered as S-Corps, which would be really really stupid, as they only allow 100 max investors.

They were undoubtedly "told" by their NSA rep, "We at the NSA *KNOW* security. Better than you guys in fact. For the benefit of our country, and indeed, the entire world, we want to sell you the MOST ADVANCED RNG we can design! Please, please consider buying it from us, so that we may fund additional security improvements for you in the future. It can only make your users safer!"

They possibly even believed it.

Get. The. Fuck. Out of here. You motherfucking Bully!

It's not like we haven't had to deal with your ilk elsewhere!

STAY THE FUCK OUT OF SLASHDOT!

Man, Texas ain't half that bad!

I work in Houston, make ~$100,000, don't pay any state income taxes, have a 7% sales tax rate in my city, and a $800 two bedroom apartment 15 minutes from work. I doubt I could have all that in very many other states.

Oh, and we have sun like 230 days a year (compared to Seattle's ~100), and it's never really cold (it snows maybe once every 7 years).

It's their fucking database. Their website is in the UTF-8 charset, but their database's character set is apparently ISO-8859-1 which doesn't even have the € symbol. Their front-end attempts to compensate by converting everything it can into HTML special chars, like & euro (e.g., €uro vs. €uro).

The devs should be shot.