nixon - Slashdot User

Comment Drought ravaged? Slashdot is Beta ravaged (Score -1, Flamebait) 268

by nixon on Thursday February 06, 2014 @09:36AM (#46172817) Attached to: Fracking Is Draining Water From Areas In US Suffering Major Shortages

I guess Slashdot isn't monetized enough? How else to explain the miserable Beta redesign?

Users should cause a revenue drought for Dice. Money talks...............

Submission + - Alternatives to Slashdot post beta? 8

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 06, 2014 @07:41AM

An anonymous reader writes: Like many Slashdotters, I intend to stop visiting Slashdot after the beta changeover. After years of steady decline in the quality of discussions here, the beta will be the last straw. What sites alternative to Slashdot have others found? The best I have found has been arstechnica.com, but it has been a while since I've looked for tech discussion sites.

Submission + - Slashdot BETA Discussion (slashdot.org) 60

Submitted by mugnyte on Thursday February 06, 2014 @03:27AM

mugnyte writes: With Slashdot's recent restyled "BETA" slowly rolled to most users, there's been a lot of griping about the changes. This is nothing new, as past style changes have had similar effects. However, this pass there are significant usability changes: A narrower read pane, limited moderation filtering, and several color/size/font adjustments. BETA implies not yet complete, so taking that cue — please list your specific, detailed opinoins, one per comment, and let's use the best part of slashdot (the moderation system) to raise the attention to these. Change can be jarring, but let's focus on the true usability differences with the new style.

Comment Make Beta go away please (Score 5, Interesting) 127

by nixon on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @11:16PM (#46169841) Attached to: NASA Pondering Two Public Contests To Build Small Space Exploration Satellites

I've been a Slashdot quite a while, been so long I can't remember. This new beta site needs to go. The current layout works just fine. The new one looks like one of those SEO spam sites used to get clicks. Please make it go away.

Submission + - Owner: Vote, your choice: Get rid of Slashdot:Beta OR everyone goes elsewhere (slashdot.org) 1

Submitted by Ying Hu on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @11:05PM

Ying Hu writes: Slashdot Beta is not Slashdot: http://slashdot.org/journal/63...
What was loved about Slashdot does not appear in the new design — those creating the latter, please fire yourself and go work for a commercial consumer site (which we never read, and never will). OUR site should work without JavaScript, and JavaScript that IS used should to do something actually desired by a reader or commenter, not waste our bandwidth and CPU, and electricity, sending CRAP onto our computers. Improvements/ plugins, http://userstyles.org/styles/9..., won't be enough.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Opinion of slashdot beta? 9

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @11:05PM

An anonymous reader writes: What are your thoughts about slashdot beta? Post your complaints here so that I don't have to see them elsewhere. Additionally, if the beta is so bad that you don't want to stay, what other news website do you recommend?

Submission + - Beta Is Turned On By Rejection (billanddavescocktailhour.com) 1

Submitted by LordFlower on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @10:25PM

LordFlower writes: Take this lesson from rejection

Submission + - Slashdot Beta an utter failure, publishers still decide to roll it out 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @10:18PM

An anonymous reader writes: A majority of the community is revolting against the Slashdot beta http://beta.slashdot.org/ and the men and women behind the scenes are ignoring the community. Let's see what that brings with it...

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Once Slashdot beta has been foisted on me, what site should I use? 10

Submitted by rueger on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @09:34PM

rueger writes: A fair question that is on many people's minds. Given that the beta site is proving incredibly unpopular, what Slash-replacements are out there?

Submission + - Slashdot BETA caused my penis to hide in walls of flesh 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @09:25PM

An anonymous reader writes: no disassemble number 5!

Submission + - Slashdot creates beta site users express theirs dislike (slashdot.org) 4

Submitted by who_stole_my_kidneys on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @09:23PM

who_stole_my_kidneys writes: Slashdot started redirecting users in February to its newly revamped webpage and received a huge backlash from users. The majority of comments dislike the new site while some do offer solutions to make it better. The question is will Slashdot force the unwanted change on its users that clearly do not want change?

Submission + - Once Slashdot beta has been foisted upon me, what site should I use instead? 2

Submitted by somenickname on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @09:06PM

somenickname writes: As a long time Slashdot reader, I'm wondering what website to transition to once the beta goes live. The new beta interface seems very well suited to tablets/phones but, it ignores the fact that the user base is, as one would expect, nerds sitting in front of very large LCD monitors and wasting their employers time. It's entirely possible that the browser ID information gathered by the site has indicated that they get far more hits on mobile devices where the new interface is reasonable but, I feel that no one has analyzed the browser ID (and screen resolution) against comments modded +5. I think you will find that most +5 comments are coming from devices (real fucking computers) that the new interface does not support well. Without an interface that invites the kind of users that post +5 comments, Slashdot is just a ho-hum news aggregation site that allows comments. So, my question is, once the beta is the default, where should Slashdot users go to?

Submission + - Slashdot beta sucks 9

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @08:04PM

An anonymous reader writes: Maybe some of the slashdot team should start listening to its users, most of which hate the new user interface. Thanks for ruining something that wasn't broken.

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