Journal Marxist Hacker 42's Journal: Most f*'d up Slashdot UI ever 13
I'm stuck with IE at work. This obviously was never tested in IE 8- with the way all the frames are now glued to the left side of the window and overwriting each other.
This is worse than OMG Ponies! interface.
It looks bad in Chromium too (Score:2)
I've had the new front page style turned off but kept D2 turned on. My first thought when I saw the new layout was, "someone hit Slashdot with an ugly stick". They I tried to use the keyboard shortcuts and they weren't working correctly. Thank you Slashdot for making the front page ugly and breaking D2, the one new feature that I actually loved.
My IE issues (Score:2)
2) Weird comment layout - when looking at who commented on yours.
3) All the corners are square while in Opera (which I have at home) the corners are rounded like the old UI.
4) Sign in and Options box is rendered very strangely.
5) Eats a ton of CPU.
Suicide by upgrade (Score:3)
It's funny, your comment showed up on the front page. Because the journal picture overlayed it, all I could see was:
I've noticed the number of comments on stories is way down from normal. Slashdot may have just committed suicide by upgrade.
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This JOURNAL ENTRY is showing up on the front page?!!?!?!?!?!?
Now I know something if f*'d up in slashdot land. No wonder I got three responses from people outside of my normal circle.
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At the moment I'm on Chrome on the Parted Magic 5.5 Live CD (whilst I fight with some other recalcitrant software and hardware), and this journal entry showed on the front page, in between "New Bill Gives FCC Some Teeth on Net Neutrality" and "Hackers Increasingly Using Twitter For Botnets".
A little further up the page is http://slashdot.org/journal/260460/Redesign [slashdot.org] where rickb928 offers the thought "There's a reason Slashdot doesn't redesign the site very often. Same reason I dont lick the stove when its
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I have the firehose mixed in with the normal front page by the look of it and I can't seem to turn that off.
Unless you change the comment threshold settings you can't see the Reply To This text
Maybe they are just trying to get the redesign into the Hall of Fame (for all the wrong reasons).
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It seems to be more than that. Ya, some journals are showing up. Maybe the only journals people are posting, since they screwed the format up so bad.
There have been stories that showed up, that I couldn't comment on. Well, it said I needed to log in to comment, but looking at the top of the page, it showed my name, and the checkbox where I disabled advertising. That checkbox doesn't show for everyone. It seems it only shows for regular commenters, submitters, and moderator
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Finally managed to turn firehose off the front page - Options, Stories, deselect Other Content
slashdot.org/users.pl still works - can even see the write in journal option without scrolling
Broken here, too. (Score:2)
moof (Score:1)
I primarily use IE8, by choice. I don't think it's so much that it was never tested in IE8, but that the new site was never meant to work with the current or older IE's. They're using HTML5 tags, and my understanding is that browsers are supposed to ignore tags they don't recognize, but that's for varying meanings of "ignore", and IE for one doesn't bother with any styling on such tags, since it's supposed to ignore them. So I'm guessing that this site will *never* work with any IE before version 9 (which i
redesign (Score:2)
Lots of white space, but like 3 out of 4 other cases of horrible brokenness on /., I am not affected.
Also, OMG Ponies! was the greatest thing ever, I wish they had kept it.
Ok, finally got Chrome installed (Score:2)
And this looks almost as shitty in chrome. If it ain't broke, /., DON'T FIX IT!!!!!
Looks like they've got the worst fixed. (Score:2)
I'm even going back to IE as my primary browser for now.