I remember the last time you shut down technocrat, it was many years ago after slashdot pissed me off with changes (they'd clearly not tested in a javascript-free environment), and I just thought to hell with it, I know somewhere better.... Ooops, too late.

But you're right, it is all about the articles. Responsibility for that is of course easily distributable. On think that I think is overlooked is the fact that the people who are best equipped for hunting out topics for coverage aren't necessarily the best ones for creating a well-written and researched summary. Maybe a multi-layer system where the front end contributors, the ones with 100 RSS feeds at their fingertips, just submit a very brief *fresh* link, and someone else who has expertise in the field creates the summary for it. It there's a maths story, I'm your editor...

And finally, at least once a month I say "I miss Groklaw". It can never be said too much.

> I can copy and paste things from the articles ... without it shitting all over itself.

Even the things from the summaries. Everything it is prepared to send to us, it should be prepared to receive from us.

Maybe you've not worked in a company where changes like this have been foisted on employees and users. This situation is scarily similar to one of my recent past positions. With that knowledge and experience of how these things are done from the inside - yes, it is dripping with incompetence, and wrong-think. And downright lies too, I might add.

If you don't understand the difference between "go in reverse gear" and "go into reverse gear", then you're ill-equipped to enter into a semantic argument.

Thanks for the car analogy - damn, have we given up on flaming and got back to traditional slashdot contents already?

Response received...

Respecting the contents of private mail, I'll say no more apart from the fact that I am remarkably impressed with his turnaround time for emails (and perhaps I'm not blacklisted to hell and back after all).

Mailed.

Alas, my domain name is heavily associated with spam (as spammers use it as a from address, for example) and there's also a cunting "IP address reputation" website (100% commercial, not one of the free blacklist that I make good use of myself in the other direction) who are trying to strongarm me into paying them money for them to take me off their blacklist, so it might never get through.

I'm glad you got the reference I was making.

And as I don't think I'll be around much longer to use them (not that you could ever "use" them anyway), I'm glad one of us got mod-points for my post.

Someone mentioned that they'd finally fixed that unicode issue. I guess there's only one way to test that (and make the test results public):
Müük otsinguvõimalusi

After previewing... oh bollocks, I guess I misread.

They can't go in reverse gear with the brakes on.

We want them in reverse gear. And we want an apology, and an admission of total incompetence amongst those who were in decision-making positions.

Delete all cookies. Disable javascript. Keep rejecting any cookie apart from ones that are absolutely essential to you logging in. Alternatively, don't log in (and just use lynx). Then you should have the late 2000s view that the rest of us who refer to "classic" see. Of course, it's still a bit different from the real classic that we remember from the 90s, but it's good enough.

Last post will be at about 23:59 on 9th. Then there will be the boycott.
Then, hopefully, there will be an implosion, heads will roll, Alice fucking Hill will be updating her CV to include "I am an abject fucking failure". Cross fingers, and before long, actual sanity will be restored.

Until then, replacements are welcome, this may be the *only* tech site I'm signed up to, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm loyal, /per se/.

I remember when Bruce postsed his office telephone number in a slashdot story. I'd make use of that right now to tell him to get moving, if it wasn't for the fact that it was about 5 jobs back!

But apart from the data being presented, the style in which it's presented, and the user's interaction with that data, there's basically very little wrong?

All we need is a picture of Alice Hill's head on a spike as the logo, and it would be perfect.

But they're now saying "slow down".

I hereby promise no more than 15 flames per story, until either (a) Slashdot beta is buried, and there's an apology, an admission of incompetence, and the head of Alice Hill on a plate; or (b) Slashdot? What's that?

Fuck slashdot beta.