Serious usability issue Regarding the new live code:
I often only have a chance to read slashdot on the weekends (such as during
periods of crunch-time at work, etc). And I'd made the habit of always
visiting it in the daily view mode to read where I'd left off due to being
otherwise busy: i.e.
http://slashdot.org/index.pl?issue=20110125
(To view the stories of jan 25 2011, for example)
Or, say, I missed the first week of december.. and now want to finally get
around to skimming back over what I'd missed... It used to be I could
immediately jump to the relevant pages of daily postings with ease. This
increasingly common trend on so many sites towards nothing more than a
linear "Many More" button, with no other option for directly jumping
forwards and backwards to some specific point in the past, is so
-indescribably- annoying. (Reddit did this 4-5 months or so ago, and I
spend far less time there as a result). It's a major loss of power-user
functionality to only be able to access the most recent stories (or n-1,
n-2, n-...) without being able to jump around arbitrarily in the timeline
of previous posts.
PLEASE FIX THIS, or provide similar functionality!!! I'm begging
you. Seriously.
Don't take away my previously-missed-slashdot-goodness.
Yours truly,
a long and devoted slashdot user, from the days when karma
was a number, and not merely excellent
;)