We've been busy at Slashdot. As you have probably noticed, we've added
a couple of new Slashboxes recently:
- Most Discussed: Highlighting recent stories with the most
active discussions
- This Day on Slashdot: Featuring the biggest Slashdot stories
of the day all the way back to the beginning.
We also pushed through a number of fixes to the user
experience and upgrades to the site infrastructure in recent months
including:
- Upgrading Slashdot to modern hardware and new versions of MySQL and
Apache
- Cleaning up the topics pages
- Improving methods for sharing submissions
- Thumbnails for articles with videos
- Flag-a-comment abuse reporting
- Removal of old and unused Slashboxes
- A much overdue overhauling of the FAQ
- Fixes to user preferences
- The launch of the Slashdot Hall of Fame (that little badge icon next to the logo)
- Fixes to the D2 comment system. Highlights include bug fixes to the comment score slider, a better abbreviated view (if you quote the parent, that's removed so people can see your first sentence instead), and general reliability improvements to the AJAX magic
- And many more...
In addition, we're working on modules to highlight top submissions and we've
launched Slashdot TV at http://tv.slashdot.org/ . We plan
on launching more in the weeks to come. Some of these new sections
will feature original content that isn't normally run on the front
page. We're also planning a new mobile experience and we'll need your
feedback to help us with the look and usability. Our goal through all these
changes is to make your Slashdot experience a good one. We
are listening to your complaints and concerns and promise to keep
giving you News for Nerds and Stuff that Matters.
So, readers, what do you want to see in the coming months?