What does "better" mean? Apart from the fact that the beta sucks, what was it being changed for? Better doesn't mean more javascript, flat shading, loss of features or links to web2.0 junk I'm not interested in.

I lurked for a long time, joined a long time ago (this isn't my original UID, which I can't remember).

There isn't anything wrong with Classic. It's probably the only discussion site which is worth checking daily, includes a diverse interesting and clued-in community of people, works quickly, self-limits the sillier side, and works on any browser platform.

Better to me means quicker, retains old members + fresh blood, works on even more browser platforms.

There we go, have we helped define it?

Next time I log onto slashdot, if it directs me to beta, I'm not coming back.

40 double D.

> People are biased, sterotyping assholes.
Indeed.

> I have very few complaints.
Couldn't find your email program, huh?

"Although we see no startling breakthroughs, and indeed, believe such to be incompatible with the nature of software, many encouraging innovations are under way. A disciplined, consistent effort to develop, propagate, and exploit them should indeed yield an order-of-magnitude improvement."
  -- Brooks

I can't agree this was the least right of all of his predictions - he said exactly what you intimated he was wrong about. On that, he was bang on, and it's less surprising since it was an epistemological prediction. The area he was least right about was the rate of technological progress, which is much less fundamental, and therefore underestimated how quickly tools, storage, and compting speed would increase, with a consequent impact on the size of development team, production of documents, automation of testing and so on.