FortKnox's Journal: [Updated] Sorry Subscribers...

I shoulda kept my mouth shut. Remember my infinite subscription trick?
Well, I noticed today I couldn't see the mysterious future. Looking at the subscribe page:

Homepage (Plum: see the Mysterious Future!)
Stories (Plum: reading Mysterious Future stories)
Comments
So if you want to see the mysterious future now, you have to supress ads on the homepage.

What a load. They have the most broken system in the world, but fix the one piece that no one bitches about?

Really, why not spend time on.... hrm... lets see...
The moderation system?
The wonderful 503 errors?
The development cycle (in other words, quit coding like its a college project and bring in an integration server and staging server to ensure changes are fully tested before bringing them live)
etc, etc etc...

What a joke... I'm gonna really start spilling out code to get rid of this place as fast as I can, now....

Update: Belay that order!
After toying around with it, either the mysterious future wasn't viewed by anyone, or soemthing, cause I can see it now and I'm not blocking ads.
Carry on...

what I do.

[grub]

I block one ad per day and use Firefox (w/AdBlock) for the other ones. If I really want to see into the "mysterious future" I temporarily set my subscription thing to whatever the minimum is to let me check it out then set it back.

Tricky trick

[the_mad_poster]

Warning: Mind the forced splits slash puts in the links below.

Bookmark this page as "See Mysterious Future" or something similar:
http://slashdot.org/subscribe.pl?buypage_index=1&b uypage_article=1&buypage_comments=0&hbtm=10&op=sav e [slashdot.org]

Bookmark this page as "Reset Subscription" and choose it after you bookmark it:
http://slashdot.org/subscribe.pl?buypage_index=0&b uypage_article=1&buypage_comments=0&hbtm=1&op=save [slashdot.org]

You will use no more than 1 ad per day, and none if you

Mysterious Future? Meh.

[ncc74656]

They don't bother checking their mail when people who've seen articles in the Mysterious Future point out dupes, so I really don't see the point of it.

Re:Mysterious Future? Meh.

[the_mad_poster]

Gives people like me more time to craft trolls, basically.

Ahhhh, good old slashdot.