Comment Beta Sucks (Score 5, Insightful) 221
Keep classic
oh and does anyone else hear the crickets??
Submission + - Your beta ruined the site. Congrats. (slashdot.org) 3
An anonymous reader writes: Your beta ruined the site. Congrats.
Submission + - Slashdot after beta - Paywall? 2
An anonymous reader writes: Is the beta hinting at other changes in the near future?
Submission + - Things that suck less than the Slashdot BETA (slashdot.org) 2
Bob the Super Hamste writes: A black hole with daddy issues
Star Wars Episode I
JJ Abrams style lens flair
Snookie in a bar's mens room
The Denver Bronco's Superbowl performance
The GNAA and mycleanpc trolling
Soviet Russia
Star Wars Episode I
JJ Abrams style lens flair
Snookie in a bar's mens room
The Denver Bronco's Superbowl performance
The GNAA and mycleanpc trolling
Soviet Russia
Submission + - Slashdot is dead 3
An anonymous reader writes: I saw it with my own eyes
Submission + - Dice Holding Slashdot Beta Yields Withering Reviews 1
LordFlower writes: Fuck Beta and the hole it came from
Comment Re:About the beta. (Score 0) 197
Parent comment is so meta.
Comment Re:Dice have already written off Slashdot (Score 1) 116
If
I don't participate massively in comments here, but there is no other site where the level of my commenting even comes close to here.
Also, there is IMHO no other site where the comments aren't immensely crappy in comparison to this site.
If the beta goes through, its the end of an era. Youtube style web commenting will have won.
QuakeNet: Government-Sponsored Attacks On IRC Networks 197
Barryke writes "Like FreeNode, it seems more and more legitimate businesses or non-profit organizations are being targeted by government subsidiaries in attempts to disrupt and spy on their users. IRC network QuakeNet has posted a press release condemning these efforts. Quoting: 'These attacks are performed without informing the networks and are targeted at users associated with politically motivated movements such as "Anonymous." While QuakeNet does not condone or endorse and actively forbids any illegal activity on its servers we encourage discussion on all topics including political and social commentary. It is apparent now that engaging in such topics with an opinion contrary to that of the intelligence agencies is sufficient to make people a target for monitoring, coercion and denial of access to communications platforms. The released documents depict GCHQ operatives engaging in social engineering of IRC users to entrap themselves by encouraging the target to leak details about their location as well as wholesale attacks on the IRC servers hosting the network. These attacks bring down the IRC network entirely affecting every user on the network as well as the company hosting the server.' One of those tactics applied by governments is the DDOS, which (perhaps not so) coincidentally, is what their suspects are accused of. Is this irony or hypocritical?"
Comment Re:Dice has written off Slashdot (Score 1) 156
Repurposed as what, worthless crap?
The people who care about the brand are revolting against changes to this site.
People who have frequented this site for over a DECADE are talking about walking away.
Sure they could try to forge a new brand â¦. for the pittance of users they'd have left.
Submission + - How to fix Slashdot Beta? 17
Forbo writes: Since the migration to Slashdot Beta was announced, it seems all meaningful discussion has been completely disrupted with calls to boycott and protest. Rather than pull an Occupy, what can be done to focus and organize the action? What is the end goal: To revert entirely to the previous site, or to address the problems with the new site?
Submission + - Unofficial front page discussion of why /. BETA is bad (slashdot.org) 2
Bob the Super Hamste writes: As many of us have had a chance to experience the new and unimproved /. BETA here is an unofficial hopefully front page worthy discussion thread. If you have been lucky to not have experienced it you can always see it at beta.slashdot.org
Submission + - Why is Slashdot ignoring the advice of so many developer articles. 2
An anonymous reader writes: Over the years, Slashdot has recycled plenty of articles about lousy UX, lousy design, lousy graceful degradation, lousy development practices, lousy community management, even lousy JavaScript implementations creating security problems. Did Slashdot read any of those articles?
Comment Re:Sad news (Score 0) 204
Thats a great idea. They should take the
Over the history of
The forced march to beta speaks directly against the "News for Nerds" ethos. It all flash and eye candy and gaudy mass market type of website crap.
Comment Re:Slashdot death rattle (Score 4, Interesting) 250
You know, I wouldn't fuss if they removed the disable ads checkbox in my classic mode. I'd live with it.
But the beta site is garbage.
