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Submission + - New layout remains broken? (slashdot.org)

Sparr0 writes: "I continue to be mostly unable to use Slashdot on the new layout.

It looks like this.

5 stories on the front page, 4 of which are usually collapsed by default. I can't tell why the top story appears as a speech bubble from the search box, there's usually a "tip of the day" type of note in a speech bubble there. Clicking the "Many more" button yields a circular progress animation for a few seconds, then back to "Many more" with no new stories. The "Fullscreen" link at the bottom seems to do nothing. Clicking the 2pm/1pm buttons shows me a specific hour block of stories, I think.

When I click on stories I am usually greeted with a false opportunity to get first post:
This story has 0 Comments ...
This discussion was created for logged-in users only. ...
Post a Comment

I also can't normally find any way to submit a story. I had to refresh the page a dozen times to get the link for this page from a tip-of-the-day bubble.

There are many other ways in which the new layout is much less useful or usable than the old. Why did this leave beta and get foisted on us? Why haven't I seen any other discussion of this, on the few stories where I can see comments? And, most importantly, where is the best place to ask questions like this, when you're having problems using Slashdot so you can't really ask on slashdot?"

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Submission + - Woman Dies in Her Cubicle, Nobody Notices (time.com)

jIyajbe writes: Ever feel like no one notices all the effort you put into your job?

Well, hopefully they at least notice you're alive and breathing. If not, you could find yourself in the same situation as Rebecca Wells, a 51-year-old woman who died in her cubicle Friday in Los Angeles County.

Though she died on Friday, she was unnoticed at her desk in the Department of Internal Services until Saturday. The county coroner is yet to determine the cause of death.

Comment Re:Not so hot here (Score 1) 8

I'm referring to front page stories, not comment threads.

Currently on the front page I see a different one of your journal entries, three collapsed grey stories, and one expanded green-header story. Below those is a button labeled "Many more". Clicking that button produces a rotating progress indicator for a second, then nothing else.

Comment Not so hot here (Score 1) 8

I take it that the 'Many More' button on the front page works for you? It doesn't for me, on any platform :( I can never see more than the handful of top front page stories and have mostly stopped visiting the site now.

Comment Re:Website access is not unauthorized (Score 1) 221

The newspaper theft references apply to the LOIC specifically, but not to something like my WalMart example or a very-very-distributed DOS such as the /. effect, where any single person is NOT exceeding the normal scope of authorization.

That is, if I take all of the free newspapers, it is very likely that I am breaking the law. But if I take one newspaper, and you take one, and Bob takes one, none of us have committed a crime. We haven't even conspired to commit a crime (since we actually did the thing, and it wasn't criminal).

Comment Website access is not unauthorized (Score 4, Interesting) 221

The problem with calling a DDOS "unauthorized access" is that the access is implicitly authorized by the server being on the internet. The real world analogy here is getting your hundred closest friends to visit WalMart and go through the checkout lines VERY VERY SLOWLY. You have the intent to negatively impact their business, and you are acting recklessly, but that is only 2/3 (well, more like 9/10) of the criteria for violating the laws in question here. You are not using their store without authorization (they have to TELL YOU TO LEAVE before they have any legal relief for your being there).

Comment Smaller screens? (Score 1) 2254

My screen is 720 pixels wide (and 1280 pixels tall). I have to lower my text zoom to 80% to get the front page to fit on one screen. At 100% the normal view is too wide. At 120% it switches to the no-sidebar view, but it doesn't shrink back down. WTF?

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