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Comment Various games mostly 2-3 yo - new distrib (Score 1) 669

by advid.net (#46284197) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing?

Now I mostly play games bought via Humble Bundle and Steam.
Most of the games are 2-3+ years old, I bought them there at discounted price.

Also some games on PS3.

Currently on PC (most recently played first) :

- Path of Exile (Diablo like)
- World of Goo (very nice puzzles with a bit of physics simulation)
- Antichamber (your own mind against you, quite unique game)
- The Cave
- Portal 2
- Amnesia
- Starcraft 2

On PS3 :

- Terraria (sand box)
- Star Drone (flipper like, good ambiance)
- Journey (mystical feeling)
- Heavy Rain (multiple ends story, immersive)
- Some FPS, Snipper I guess.
- DarkSiders 2
- Uncharted 3 Great Game, great memories, highly recommended
- Crisis 2
- Lots of demos

Comment Slashdot crashing ? (Score 1, Interesting) 176

I see a wonderful spaceship crashing on a planet in slow motion...

This is Slashdot, poisoned by the silly beta that brings buck feta comments in every story

All stories are contaminated, even if there is a main topic for complaining and suggesting improvements or "abandon the beta" advice.

We need to stop this.

Stop redirecting to the beta.
Stop filling stories with buck feta comments.

Comment Abstract (Score 1) 2219

by advid.net (#46184701) Attached to: Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds!

Some relevent comments I'd like to copy/paste here:/p>

The title calls us their "Audience". This is the core of the problem. They think they are running CNN. They do not understand that we are their contributors, their community, not their audience. Their articles are day-late dollar-short shit. We are the authors of the good part of the site, they are the chalkboard.

This is an attitude change that came with Dice

We are not the audience. We are the performers!

Don't appease your readers by saying, "We are listening" and then continuing down your existing path. That's worse than not saying it at all.

I don't think you have understood. We don't want you to slow down. We want you to stop; reverse; appologise for being so out of touch with your user base; and promise to never do anything so stupid again.

The solution is simple: can Beta as a failure. Be grown-up enough to admit that it did not work, and start again from scratch, designing with the contributors in mind. You know, the guys who provide the majority of the content people come here for - the discussions.
It takes courage to admit that you've been wrong. That would be respected. But polishing a turd is not going to win anyone's admiration, or even sympathy.

--

UX is exactly like Astrology or Alchemy and nothing like chemistry or astronomy. HCI (Human Computer Interaction) is the real science, UX is a pseudo-science.
UX research has given us Gnome 3, Unity, Metro. All universally despised.
And "UX" is a stupid buzzword.

--

The appeal of Slashdot is the pedantry, the technical nature of things, and the overall level of the discussion. If I want to interact with a "wider audience" I can go talk on the Disqus comments that litter CNN, CNBC, etc.

It's not the current site design that's limiting slashdot's appeal to a broader audience. I think slashdot already has the readership of its target audience. Changing the site design is not going to bring new people flocking in, but it is going to drive away the ones that are already here. Seems like a bad plan.

Beta must be abandoned as a failed experiment. It is awful - not due to bugs, but due to the intention behind the redesign. Your existing 'audience' is what makes slashdot. If you want a larger audience I suggest you create a celebrity gossip website. Awful.

Submission + - Fuck beta 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The beta is bad. It's so bad. The comments are reduced in screen width about 50%. Subject lines are deemphasized, scores are minimized, etc.

The discussions are the reason to come to Slashdot, and the beta trivializes them entirely. It looks like the comment section on a generic news site.

The comments now look like an afterthought, whereas they used to be the primary focus of the site.

Submission + - User Backlash at Slashdot Beta Site (slashdot.org) 3

Submitted by hduff
hduff writes: Look at almost any current Slashdot story and see loyal, long-time members rail against the new site design, willing to burn precious karma points to post off-topic rants against the new design and it being forced on users by the Dice Overlords. Discussion has begun to create an alternate site.

Submission + - Boycott Beta 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: On February 5, 2014, Slashdot announced through a javascript popup that they are starting to "move in to" the new Slashdot Beta design.

Slashdot Beta is a trend-following attempt to give Slashdot a fresh look, an approach that has led to less space for text and an abandonment of the traditional Slashdot look. Much worse than that, Slashdot Beta fundamentally breaks the classic Slashdot discussion and moderation system.

If you haven't seen Slashdot Beta already, open this in a new tab. After seeing that, click here to return to classic Slashdot.

We should boycott stories and only discuss the abomination that is Slashdot Beta until Dice abandons the project.
We should boycott slashdot entirely during the week of Feb 10 to Feb 17 as part of the wider slashcott

Moderators — only spend mod points on comments that discuss Beta
Commentors — only discuss Beta
http://slashdot.org/recent [slashdot.org] [slashdot.org] — Vote up the Fuck Beta stories

Keep this up for a few days and we may finally get the PHBs attention.

Captcha: fuckbeta

http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4757125&cid=46169357
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4757125&cid=46169451
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4757045&cid=46168351
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4756947&cid=46167453

Submission + - I am Slashdot 1

Submitted by OzPeter
OzPeter writes: I submit stories. I read stories. I add comments. I moderate comments. I am the reason that there is ad revenue.

I am Slashdot.

(please propagate the "I am Slashdot" meme in anyway you can)

Submission + - /. Goes down in flame war 5

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Slashdot users flame all site stories with comments about the sites forced switching over to Beta version. The comments are relentless, calling for a ban of the site from Feb 10 to Feb 17. The following post is being made in every story comment:
On February 5, 2014, Slashdot announced through a javascript popup that they are starting to "move in to" the new Slashdot Beta design.
Slashdot Beta is a trend-following attempt to give Slashdot a fresh look, an approach that has led to less space for text and an abandonment of the traditional Slashdot look. Much worse than that, Slashdot Beta fundamentally breaks the classic Slashdot discussion and moderation system.
If you haven't seen Slashdot Beta already, open this [slashdot.org] in a new tab. After seeing that, click here [slashdot.org] to return to classic Slashdot.
We should boycott stories and only discuss the abomination that is Slashdot Beta until Dice abandons the project.
We should boycott slashdot entirely during the week of Feb 10 to Feb 17 as part of the wider slashcott [slashdot.org]
Moderators — only spend mod points on comments that discuss Beta
Commentors — only discuss Beta
http://slashdot.org/recent [slashdot.org] — Vote up the Fuck Beta stories
Keep this up for a few days and we may finally get the PHBs attention.
Captcha: fuckbeta

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Why Can't Slashdot Classic and Slashdot Beta Continue to Co-Exist? 9

Submitted by Hugh Pickens DOT Com
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes: Slashdot has been a big part of my life since I had my my first stories accepted over ten years ago. Some people my age do crossword puzzles to keep their mental agility, some do sudoko, or play bridge. I enjoy searching for and putting together a story a day for slashdot because it helps keep me on my toes to have readers find errors and logical fallacies in my submissions and I enjoy learning from the different points of view expressed on a story I have submitted. That's why I have been so discouraged in the past several years to see readership in slashdot drop off. As a close observer of this web site, I know that ten years ago it was unheard of for any accepted story to get less than 100 comments and there was at least a story a day that got over 1,000 comments. Those days are long gone. Not it's not uncommon to see some stories garner only a few dozen comments. That's how web sites die. If you slip below a critical level of readership, readers will abandon the site completely. I know from my own experience running a web site devoted to the Peace Corps that I used to have hundreds of comments to some of my stories but once comments slipped below a certain threshold, then they disappeared altogether. I think that slashdot is nearing that threshold and I fear that imposing Slashdot Beta on the site's readership will push it over the edge and I don't want to see that happen. I'd like to propose that slashdot continue running slashdot classic and slashdot beta in parallel. I'll stick with classic most of the time. One of the best features of slashdot classic is that comments can be displayed in four formats (threaded, nested, no comment, and flat) and in two directions (oldest first and newest first) providing a lot of flexibility in watching conversations develop. I switch between the formats several times a day depending on what I want to see. But slashdot beta also has its advantages in certain situations. Slashdot needs a blockbuster story or two every day where people can pile on and slashdot beta facilitates this by putting the most commented story at the top of the page and I think that is a good thing. Still I'll use slashdot beta occasionally when I'm on a mobile device but slashdot classic will be the format I use on my desktop. So don't deprecate slashdot classic. That would be like Microsoft disabling Windows 7 and forcing everyone to use Windows 8. And not even Microsoft is that stupid.

Comment Beta not working... yet bad preview (Score 1) 60

by advid.net (#46172919) Attached to: Slashdot BETA Discussion

The Beta isn't working on my FF and IE.
Page doesn't render completly.

However I agree with the views of people complaining, since we already have experienced a similar move before, but not so catastrophic, and I see what they mean.

I've sent an email to feedback (at) slashdot.org , Subject is "beta_feedback", since they ask for it in the MOVIN’ ON UP nag.

...

Just listen to the user base: we do not like the redesign, we want the old slashdot back.

We just want streamlined and dense data feed from /. as before, not a redesign that makes /. looks like any other site with tons of pictures and js scripts.

I'm sorry for the people who spent some time to develop the redesign, it's a waste of time, I hope they had fun and that they will be able to use those skills somewhere else.

...

By data feed I mean Subjects and comments

Question to those with the beta fully running on their browsers:
Is there an option to revert to the classic /. at the bottom (as they tell us in the survey) ? Does it works ?

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