You know what? I'll take the new beta site when they stop
double spacing
all the lines
of text
in a little column
on the left
to make room for a giant column that has one ad at the top and is otherwise empty all the way down the entire comment section. I mean fuck, if they want to be all web 9.2 or whatever the version we're supposed to be on, they should have their "promoted" comments on top in their little colored boxes with their ads and shit on the side (just like the old fogey screen) then give us a working nested comment section that doesn't max out at 2 comments on the screen. Case in point: I went to http://science-beta.slashdot.o... and control-f'd your name and found this very comment. On the old fogey screen, your comment (including the quote) takes 11 lines (including the paragraph break after "now..." On the beta with the same screen size, your post takes 29 lines, not counting the fact that line spacing is set to about 1.5 or so. The first line of your post is
Yeah. Shows how out of touch the people in
That's all that fits. For the lulz, I hit reply over there and the reply box has a huge amount of padding on the inside. The first line of this comment before it wraps is
You know what? I'll take the new
This doesn't look like the new web, it looks like a 150 year old newspaper from back when editors said "fuck everything we're doing SEVEN columns of newsprint!" and a tiny font and that was progress.
Also, give us back abbreviated view, so nesting works right even if there's a -1 comment in the chain without mycleanpc taking up 50 goddamn screens each. I also feel sorry for the people who aren't in the first 20 or so posters because nobody's going to sit there mashing "more" over and over.