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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

http://developers.slashdot.org... [slashdot.org]
http://developers.slashdot.org... [slashdot.org]
http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... [slashdot.org]
http://science.slashdot.org/co... [slashdot.org]

What to do?

Know your algorithms.

Mondelez says the software will only use and collect aggregate data, and will not record any video or photos."

Yet.

>>No it won't. It will do nothing. The voter has to learn to resist propaganda, and think critically. Check the records, not the campaign speeches. Campaign 'reform' is a bullshit shell game, just like term limits. They will find another way to launder the money.

Rather, "and think critically, and waste no time to take organized action with reason and empathy based on conclusions attained by evidence."

Perhaps they will offer a super premium ultimate for workgroups edition that comes with this awesome feature unbundled.

Think of the guppies!

How soon can we harvest the bacteria to fuel our cars?

hell freezes over.

RIM's loss is simply another symptom that we are accelerating toward the singularity. Nothing to see here, as everything is obsolete the moment you see it, so move along...

Please mod parent insightful. Tear extraction from mermaids may be the correlative catalyst that explains why the number of pirates is reducing global warming!

Are we sure that cold fusion isn't possible from extracting economic sustainability and financial stability through the ether? I think that's how Rossi got it working.

on storage. Instead of buying more, I'm just converting everything to ASCII.

...though it's safer to blow up the two small meteors than to try to dodge them, and you get points. Still, the rest time during meteor mode is the only reason I haven't developed carpal tunnel from playing the game. My copy of Twerps is really buggy; otherwise I'd have mastered that, too.

~psybre

and make shape tables (or just play Sneakers)

~psybre