Comment Re:Interesting (Score 0) 136
And also on those blogs we need a comments system that is functional and usable.
FUCK BETA!
And also on those blogs we need a comments system that is functional and usable.
FUCK BETA!
Calling them names is a damn sight kinder than what they deserve.
What then do they deserve? Fines, banishment, prison, gulag?
Seriously calling them names it the most deniers should face. In the US they have free speech rights. They get to say what their opinion is. Opinion is heavily protected speech.
You of course have the same rights which makes the name calling, while not nice, something you are fully allowed to do.
I so much want the concept of "I disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it" to actually mean something in this country again.
Lately, the political left, instead of debating, has been strenuously trying to remove the right of their political opponents to speak and I find that absolutely terrifying.
Also, fuck beta. I have no way to tell if someone responded to me other than looking at that specific thread.
I know. That is the worst feature of the beta by far. Lacking direct navigation to comment threads from users' comments pages is a egregious omission.
Imagine you're a NASA worker with a nice (albeit old) Macbook computer to do your work on.
Some schmuck walks up to you with a brand new hp laptop with Windows 8 on it to replace your Mac.
I fail to see the scenario where the NASA worker _shouldn't_ enthusiastically shun the "helper" from hp.
When the choice is between something nice and functioning and a crappy os on a crappy piece of hardware, the choice is easy.
The problem with these "one size fits all" contracts is that one size does not fit all situations ever.
If hp wants to make this contract successful they should be forced to offer multiple options through multiple vendors where they take a cut to manage the maintenance and configuration of any of the possible selected systems.
Somewhat authoritarian?
Isn't that a lot like a little bit pregnant?
I think the key point to what we want from the beta is that we don't want the comments section of the beta to be just like the comments section of every other website that has comments.
There are features and capabilities that exist in the classic website that MUST exist in any future modification of the website.
Just like system updates in the software used by companies, if you upgrade the system and take away the functionality the users rely on day in and day out, expect a horrendous backlash.
The old style of the site may not be pretty, but we've grown accustomed to how it works and what it can do. The new site is pretty and doesn't appear to have given two shits about how the site should really work or has worked in the past.
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.
Its not about not displaying the userid its about the craptacular posting and commenting system in the beta.
The lack of displaying the user id is a symptom of the developers paying no attention to how the current system works and operates well.
Another strike against them is that in the beta following your or other users past comments is incredibly cumbersome and unwieldily.
In the interest of cleanness they provide so little information on the users' comments pages as to make tracking and following comments and moving through comment threads extremely clunky.
"Can you program?" "Well, I'm literate, if that's what you mean!"