Comment Re:Alternative to Beta (Score 0) 36
Yeah, I miss GNAA too. Their website was much better designed than the Slashdot Beta.
Yeah, I miss GNAA too. Their website was much better designed than the Slashdot Beta.
"I should have stuck with Web 1.0, like Stalin!"
Stack Exchange should just go ahead and write a Slashdot replacement, I'd be over there in a second. Unlike the trained chimps at Dice, they know how to do web design, they understand the concept of a site driven by user content, and they don't have contempt for their users.
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Whitespace burning
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In the night
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Holy shit
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What a sight
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Beta Shave.
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It's a small step in the right direction. But they've mishandled this thing so badly that it'll take more than one vaguely worded post to quiet people down.
And this is what I still don't understand: Why? What was the motivation for the redesign? What problems was it supposed to solve? (And if the answer is 'to better serve ads', then you might as well tell us, because we'll find out anyway.)
I don't mean to defend fuckups, but healthcare.gov was a hugely complicated project. It had to connect millions of users with thousands of insurance companies, and it was all designed from scratch. Plus the specs were coming from the government, which meant that revising them was almost impossible.
On the flip side, Dice took a perfectly functional message board, and managed to turn it to shit.
Slashdot users are extremely unhappy with the new Slashdot Beta design. The comment section of every single post is devoted to dissatisfaction with the new design.
... ... The thing to keep in mind about community sites devoted to user generated content is that the users generate the content.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce