I was thinking more along the lines of http://everything2.com/title/c... but that works too.

I was interested to see what they'd do and sadly it turns out the pessimism was warranted, they're running phpBB right now.

I think we have legitimate gripes. Not the least of which is that if you're using the new site, clicking these links takes you nowhere.

Simple: they bought the phone before they lost their job and their house, and now they keep it just in case some company decides to take pity on them and hire a homeless bum, so they'll get the call to come in for their interview.

There is only XUL.

all the comments about it that makes the actual comments hard to read.

Haha no, have some screenshots. The first two are in response to a guy claiming that he can see as much in Beta as he sees in Classic, which was 100% bullshit. The third one is an example of how fucked up everything is once you get a few replies into a thread. Note that slashdot appears to be picking random fonts for everyone's posts, that's always a plus for readability. I'm sure Pi/10 horses they asked for their UX research thought it was a great idea!

It's a pump and dump from the inside. Dice wants out so they're trying to pump up the cash value of the site as much as possible, and cash value = advertisers. Who cares if the sucker they unload it onto loses their shirt when they find out the advertisers won't pay for ads on a site nobody uses.

Just for giggles, I loaded up The Consumerist for the first time in years. Years ago it was a respectable community with tens if not hundreds of comments on its posts. Then they went and completely wrecked their comment system. Today? The top post on page one has NINE comments. Out of 18 posts, there are 8 with ZERO comments.

Slashdot: THIS IS YOUR FUTURE. Nobody will click 45% of your stories!

Now true, they're a special case since they don't do advertising, so nobody cares if nobody has a reason to ever click through their story to read the comments, but it's proof that it has happened before and it WILL happen again if Slashdot continues on this path. By destroying the comment system Slashdot won't just decimate their pageviews, they'll obliterate them. The only way they'd be able to try to get people to click through to the story page is if they disabled the original article links in the main page, and that will completely ruin them as a news aggregator.

I'm pretty interested. Knowing the people around here it could either be a fully reverse-engineered slashdot clone with proper unicode support and account migration (post a secret code in a comment to prove you're sliceoflife). Or it could be a 3 version old phpBB knockoff running on a shared host with .25mbit bandwidth allocation that runs for 3 hours before you get an account suspended error page.

but when browsing topics I can practically fit the same amount of content into my window as before

O RLY?

BTW, in classic I can see your post, the AC before you, your parent's post, your previous post, and 11 one line abbreviated posts above that all in one 1280x1024 screen.

In beta, your reply here doesn't even show up. Bush is the last poster in the thread. You don't even exist.

8/10, made me reply. Enjoy a side-by-side comparison while you troll

Hm, I actually hadn't noticed that as a problem

I exaggerated perhaps too much, but there is definitely a weird issue with the font going on. I captured this in a screenshot I had made for another thread: http://imgur.com/YvQjTIf Perhaps it's simply the natural spacing difference between the sans-serif font used on the top comment and the serif font used on the comment on the bottom of the screenshot, but it definitely feels like it takes up much more space either way.

reddit is almost like slashdot except that everyone has infinite modpoints and they all use every last one of them. A slashdot migration there would result in the slashdot hivemind being consumed rapidly by the reddit hegemony.

Hacker News is almost like reddit except way uglier and you can only mod down once your karma is high enough. It's real news for real nerds. It's likely that the residents who have enough karma to mod down would ensure that the slashdot horde would never reach that level of karma. It also looks like they don't have nearly the stomach for humor that this place does. (38 comments and this story about creating progress bars in CSS doesn't have a single "How do I get it to stop at 98%" comment??)

Ars Technica is where a lot of the news slashdot gets is from in the first place. It looks like a great place to get all the NSA/politics stories we'll miss when we leave, but the comments are linear and you have to use blockquotes to figure out who is talking to who. Nested comments are personally a must for me if I'm going to have a conversation with someone.

just keep getting smaller and smaller?

Yep. I took screenshots for another discussion where I was arguing with someone about how it looked great and how I must be looking at some other screen:

http://imgur.com/YaOtcUk
http://imgur.com/YvQjTIf

I had mod points yesterday

I see it in Classic, but i had to press "Load more" on the beta site probably 10 times before it magically appeared where it was supposed to in the nested tree (which is total shit, nobody's going to scroll back up to see if new replies were loaded in the middle of all the stuff we just read through.)

Have a pic.

Also chrome on windows.

I pushed post and naturally my post disappeared from the screen. I waited a bit to see if it would come back (even on "classic" D2 it sometimes took a couple of seconds) but it never did. I had to come back to classic D2 to see that the post did, in fact, submit (so at least the posting part worked, even if there's absolutely no feedback to that effect). While I was here I scrolled through the rest of the comments on Classic to see if there's any particular reason why some of the comments fonts are different than before, and I'm not able to find one. In classic, khellendros's post is exactly the same font as yours.