Comment Re:New design (Score 2) 91
God dammit! UTF-8 support is still out! SMH!!! It's 2015 for crying out loud! 90%+ of the Net is already there!
God dammit! UTF-8 support is still out! SMH!!! It's 2015 for crying out loud! 90%+ of the Net is already there!
I seriously think those are merely growing pains. Maybe they had a deadline to get it out before 2Q begins in April?
Why didn't they make the announcement of killing Beta SOONER!? like MONTHS ago when they decided to start working on this thing? POSSIBLY, it's because this could have been done out of a labor of love by one or more of the Slashdot devs and then they all ganged up on management and said, "Let us release this and kill Beta or we're all going to motherfracking strike, motherfackers!"
I like this possibility! IT would be very epic and apropos given how Beta would have surely killed off Slashdot in a matter of weeks.
It's been EXACTLY a year since Beta was forced down our throats and we staged the 2014 Valentines Day Slashcott!
WE WON!!!!!! The new interface is *really* nice, too! So win/win after we convinced Upper Management to jettison their ill-conceived desires?
WOOHOO!!!! As a 15+ year member of Slashdot, I look forward to the next 10 years now!!!
I was so anti-Beta I helped organize the 2014 Slashcott and I also had my own personal slashcott this Valentines Week, too. just last week.
I seriously doubt without our antics and loud voices that the corporate overlords of Slashdot would have seen the light, and the site would already have died of Betaitis months ago.
Jesus. Talk about replying to the wrong thread. I'll make it even more meta by replying to myself thrice
Pipe down, Brother!
I was so anti-Beta I helped organize the 2014 Slashcott and I also had my own personal slashcott this Valentines Week, too. just last week.
I am happy to emphatically say that WE WON!!! Like you accurately point out. I seriously doubt without our antics and loud voices that the corporate overlords of Slashdot would have seen the light, and the site would already have died of Betaitis months ago.
Compared to how god awful Beta was and how forcing it on me would force me to become a literal Slashdot Refugee, I have to say, I will gladly sacrifice these missing links for the possibility of being able to use Slashdot for 10 more years!!
I wish they could have told us about this decision to jettison it MONTHS ago when they started working on it!! I've been living with a very real spectre of not being able to daily visit a site I absolutely love and is a big part of my entire adult life (17+ years) at ANY POSSIBLE DAY, and every time they announced planned outages, I shuddered inside and would start visiting other sites in preparation for the worst (nothing *but* Beta).
Hallelujah!
It's been EXACTLY a year since Beta was forced down our throats and we staged the 2014 Valentines Day Slashcott!
WE WON!!!!!! The new interface is *really* nice, too! So win/win after we convinced Upper Management to jettison their ill-conceived desires?
WOOHOO!!!! As a 15+ year member of Slashdot, I look forward to the next 10 years now!!!
I don't know, what we have *is* working with basic freedoms. I'll take liberty over cheap speeds any day.
So we can bring back PointCast?! Man, I used that service ALL THE TIME in the mid-to-late 1990s!!! I actually still miss it.
These idiots wonder why the Kindle Fire is *killing* ebook adoption. Talk about Amazon killing its baby!!
I still buy Kindle Touches, cuz they're the latest device that has full Text-To-Speech functionality in an eink.
If only I had mod points!!! ++1!
When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records
... were systematically “adjusted” to show the Earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified.
I see a lot of Slashdotters who are convinced Man-made Global Warming (AGW) is an absolute certainty, but when I analyzed the data myself, I saw how concrete jungles have expanded while temperature testing stations have stayed fixed (and concrete is warmer than grass). So now with even more evidence that biased scientists with clear motives have been altering the data for years, do you still want to believe?
Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some rays and became a tangent ?
