To make it more clear:
No one comes to
A solid comment system is what people come for. With moderation and metamoderation and scores and everything that goes with it. (For instance: being able to hide everything below a score of 3 and adding a +1 modifier to everything Interesting)
And you screwed the comment part of it. Why would you think anyone would like it?
Slashdot users are extremely unhappy with the new Slashdot Beta design. The comment section of every single post is devoted to dissatisfaction with the new design.
... ... The thing to keep in mind about community sites devoted to user generated content is that the users generate the content.
Unhappy with the new site design? Kick them where it hurts. Block advertising.
Up until now I always allowed slashdot to show me ads. I've been reading the site pretty much daily for over a decade (this is my second UID).
I just disabled advertisements. Why let them profit off of me?
If this becomes permanent, I just will have to find something else to read. I've grown up and looking more towards investment forums now, anyway. (giving a shout out to bogleheads - http://www.bogleheads.org/foru... )
Oddly enough, not one story on slashdot in the last couple days about Beta. So, of course, we discuss it in every other story on the site.
I tried it again today and if you think the article and comments sections are horrible, you should see the user profile section.
We cannot see how many replies a comment we had written has received. I find this an important tool to answer questions I have (just look at some of my previous comments) about the topic at hand.
Why couldn't they have just adjusted the style sheet a bit and let everything else stay the same? If they wanted to open up another site, they could have just done that and left
I'm not one to curse, so all I can say is 'Fuck Slashdot Beta'.
I don't want to see which comments are insightful or funny or informative.
I have a treshold and use that to decide what to read. If I want to give extra importance to funny, I can set that up in the site preference as a +1 or +2.
Why are you breaking something that was working fine?
Also, get rid of all the images. This is a sight for adults, not teenagers.
Someone, please fork
You'll get a boatload of people willing to jump this ship as soon as the new Beta is the only allowed version here.
Host some google ads on it and ask people to turn off adblock for the site. Maybe solicit some friends to cohost for bandwith reasons...
Anyone want to host a new
Seriously. Slashcode is still out there. A few developers could polish it up and post a story here to announce the new site.
Any reason this hasn't happened yet?
I just recommended a laserjet multifunction printer to my dad (he was burning through ink in am inkjet and his scanner was getting flakey under OS X).
What should I recommend people in the future? Particularly the Linux/OS X crowd? Or am I just jumping a little too early?
(I'm a little nervous as the installation process for my Laserjet m1217 on Linux Mint involves downloading a proprietary blob from HP.)
Why would they even care about your name? They're not the NSA.
They can pinpoint your demographic. That's enough for them.
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