We don't know that those predictions will come true. The fast majority of the F*ck Beta comments are coming from ACs. For all we know that could be a single individual or even a bot.
Slashdot has always had disgruntled people participate with it. But a lot of postings by an AC really are worthless to base anything on.
However, if slashdot dies because of this, it won't be because of Dice. It will be because like the dinosaurs, we couldn't adapt.
Fine, here's one more non-AC comment. Beta ought to go to hell. I'll read classic Slashdot or no Slashdot.
Dice made it perfectly clear that, even after all the backlash, Classic will soon be gone:
Dice ignores our complaints, while pretending to listen. Bitching and ruining every single discussion is the only option we have left.
And flat-out bailing, either for a while like the upcoming boycott week from the 10th to the 17th, or permanently.
A boycott would be people not using
That's coming. The complete boycott is Feb. 10th to Feb 17th. In the mean time, keep up the good work with the Beta comments everyone!
I come to
/. for the comments, but with the new Beta, I can't even see anything! It just says: ''Shazbot! We ran into some trouble getting the comments. Try again... na-nu, na-nu!
It seems like the "developers" need to take some advice from people who actually know what they are doing. I'm happy to help explain what graceful degradation means if they like...
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.