Journal Shadow Wrought's Journal: Is Classic Index Dead? 5
Well, that went from informative to ranting pretty quickly...
I have my options set to use Classic Index under both the Classic Index tab and also under the Dynamic Index tab. Yet, I'm getting the Dynamic Index. I'm running FF3 on an Ubuntu install (which has got to compromise a huge chunk of the the /. populace), and instead of being able to simply change the threshold as in days of yore, I have this ugly-ass, stupid slide that FALLS OFF THE BOTTOM OF THE F'N SCREEN!
Seriously slashdot, you are supposed to be a den of nerds. A place where geeks congregate to commiserate about the poor decisions made by their Pointy Haired Overlords that lead to a crappy product. So HOW CAN YOU JUSTIFY PROVIDING SUCH A CRAPPY PRODUCT!
I've been here 9 years now and seen a robust community decimated by crappy "improvements." Some of the improvements have been really good. The Classic Index is a fantastic example of that. And yet, instead of doing tweaks here and there, you roll out the crappy, unnecessary kludge called D2. In all seriousness, who was actually clamoring for this? Seriously, who?
Frankly if, the good index is truly gone, then there's a damn good chance I am, too.
I have my options set to use Classic Index under both the Classic Index tab and also under the Dynamic Index tab. Yet, I'm getting the Dynamic Index. I'm running FF3 on an Ubuntu install (which has got to compromise a huge chunk of the the
Seriously slashdot, you are supposed to be a den of nerds. A place where geeks congregate to commiserate about the poor decisions made by their Pointy Haired Overlords that lead to a crappy product. So HOW CAN YOU JUSTIFY PROVIDING SUCH A CRAPPY PRODUCT!
I've been here 9 years now and seen a robust community decimated by crappy "improvements." Some of the improvements have been really good. The Classic Index is a fantastic example of that. And yet, instead of doing tweaks here and there, you roll out the crappy, unnecessary kludge called D2. In all seriousness, who was actually clamoring for this? Seriously, who?
Frankly if, the good index is truly gone, then there's a damn good chance I am, too.
Well.... (Score:2)
It's kind of like how I view my job:
It is like watching a train wreck, only I'm riding on said train and not going to jump off until exactly the right moment...
Buzzwords (Score:2)
Slashdot's overlords seem to be as buzzword happy as management. The AJAXified discussion system just doesn't scale, it works for discussions of less than 100 messages or so, but if you get a controversial topic the browser just eats up 100% CPU time. Not everyone here is using an 8 core machine with 16GB of RAM.
So I'm still using the classic discussion style, it doesn't thrash this machine.
Re: (Score:2)
THAT would be an achievement.
Maybe it's time to set up a screen-scraper and provide an alternate, news-reader-style threaded feed.
(seeing as how I have to write screen-scrapers all the time ... if there's enough interest, I might turn it into a weekend project)
Classic index still working for me (Score:2)
Everything fine here, I still get to choose the threshold by a non-scripted HTML select, FF 3.6.10 running on OSX 10.6.4. I have NoScript enabled, so maybe they sniff for JS and only give you the classic index when you don't have it.
As for the front page changes and the firehose - I never get to see those, I read the /. "front page" and my messages through RSS only because I couldn't stand the mess any more. The advantage is that I don't miss any story this way, even if I don't visit the site for some days.