And Mozilla is determined to fix that problem!

I've been using the Firefox-based Pale Moon browser for a while now, specifically so I don't have to deal with crap like this. It would be really nice if developers could figure out the concept of a mature piece of software, and focus on polishing performance instead of change for the sake of change. (And at the least, make UI changes optional.)

It's like a car company offering to let your bring your car into the shop, and they swap your headlight, signal, and wiper control around for free!

"Right to a profitable business model" slowly becoming enshrined in US law one step at a time. Give the corporations another couple decades and USA Inc. will be making Russia and China look good by comparison.

Sure, the 'best' schools are there, but who cares if you're walking the edge of malnutrition in order to pay for class, gas, and books? Emigrate to an actual civilized country instead of a pretend one.

Our society's problems aren't going to be corrected by listening to disconnected billionaires.

The article is just mindless tripe for the Monsanto shills.

On Dice-owned Slashdot? I'm shocked, shocked!

Thanks, and thanks again for the pointer to comp.misc. I hope everyone who stays enjoys classic slashdot while they can.

Thanks for the pointer. For those interested, there's also altslashdot.org

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On February 5, 2014, Slashdot announced through a javascript popup that they are starting to "move in to" the new Slashdot Beta design.

Slashdot Beta is a trend-following attempt to give Slashdot a fresh look, an approach that has led to less space for text and an abandonment of the traditional Slashdot look. Much worse than that, Slashdot Beta fundamentally breaks the classic Slashdot discussion and moderation system. If you haven't seen Slashdot Beta already, open this ] in a new tab. After seeing that, click
here to return to classic Slashdot.

We should boycott stories and only discuss the abomination that is Slashdot Beta until Dice abandons the project.

We should boycott slashdot entirely during the week of Feb 10 to Feb 17 as part of the wider slashcott
Moderators - only spend mod points on comments that discuss Beta Commentors - only discuss Beta http://slashdot.org/recent - Vote up the Fuck Beta stories

Keep this up for a few days and we may finally get the PHBs attention. Links of note:
Discussion of Beta: http://slashdot.org/firehose.p... Discussion of where to go if Beta goes live: http://slashdot.org/firehose.p... Alternative Slashdot: altslashdot.org IRC Discussion: freenode #slashdot-refugees

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Please post this to new articles if it hasn't been posted yet.

On February 5, 2014, Slashdot announced through a javascript popup that they are starting to "move in to" the new Slashdot Beta design.

Slashdot Beta is a trend-following attempt to give Slashdot a fresh look, an approach that has led to less space for text and an abandonment of the traditional Slashdot look. Much worse than that, Slashdot Beta fundamentally breaks the classic Slashdot discussion and moderation system. If you haven't seen Slashdot Beta already, open this ] in a new tab. After seeing that, click here to return to classic Slashdot.

We should boycott stories and only discuss the abomination that is Slashdot Beta until Dice abandons the project.

We should boycott slashdot entirely during the week of Feb 10 to Feb 17 as part of the wider slashcott Moderators - only spend mod points on comments that discuss Beta Commentors - only discuss Beta http://slashdot.org/recent - Vote up the Fuck Beta stories

Keep this up for a few days and we may finally get the PHBs attention. Links of note: Discussion of Beta: http://slashdot.org/firehose.p... Discussion of where to go if Beta goes live: http://slashdot.org/firehose.p... Alternative Slashdot: altslashdot.org IRC Discussion: freenode #slashdot-refugees

Except their comments to date indicate that giving the users any sort of choice between the two is the last thing they're going to do. If Dice.com would make a credible (or, indeed any) statement that they do intend to give readers and posters a choice between formats I suspect much of the hullabaloo would rapidly evaporate.

I also can't help but wonder if there's some common experience of running into the evils of corporate-speak among those of us strongly reacting to the Beta.

They appear to be tossing up anything they can in an effort to stop us bitching about Beta.