Journal damn_registrars's Journal: $freaks-- 6
It is with great sorrow I read the following:
Relationship Change
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on Monday July 15, 2013 @12:05AM
Coniptor (22220) has ceased their relationship with you.
Although looking at his foes list I suspect he had to drop me so he could hate someone else instead.
Why H8? (Score:1)
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I've never had to foe anyone.
Which may be one of our remaining common threads, in that we are willing to stay above that level of pity. I do admit there was a time I had a few people on my foes list, but then I realized it made me look even more shallow and pitiful than the people I placed on my list. I don't necessarily friend all the people who oppose me - and I don't friend all my freaks either - but I don't have a need for a foes list myself.
And yes, I am specifically referring to one hyper-conservative ex-slashdot-employee ha
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They should really give the front end of
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They should really give the front end of /. a total rework in Ruby of Python, so that the commenting and journal interfaces have some, you know, utility.
Oddly enough a while ago I started reading slashdot on my android phone, just to see what kind of disaster that would be. I remembered how it used to mercilessly crash every blackberry I ever owned, so I attempted it only when I knew I had enough down time to reboot my phone if needed.
Oddly enough, it works and looks good on android. I would never have expected that. In fact, some of the profile stuff actually looks better on android than it does in FF or any PC browser. Granted, I'm not at all inter
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I expect the search function is still worthless garbage
No site needs an internal search engine, anyway. searchterm site:slashdot.org works far better than any site's internal search.
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I expect the search function is still worthless garbage
No site needs an internal search engine, anyway. searchterm site:slashdot.org works far better than any site's internal search.
Do you remember a while (years) back when they actually declared the slashdot search broken and ran all their searches through google? It was, to say the least, an improvement of many orders of magnitude. Then for no good reason they brought back their own "fixed" search engine and got us back to this sad pile of horse shit.
That said, I think there are times when a site can do a better job indexing for searches than google can, particularly a site like this one that hosts a lot of discussion. They