I'm curious how it breaks the moderation system? I'm not doubting you - I'm just not very familiar with it.

The glaring problem I see with the new design is that the right hand column spans the length of the page greatly reduces the space for the comments. I like the way the current design does it better, but it seems like they wanted to add in extra junk like polls, ads, and other headlines.

For quite a while now the mobile site was updated to a new design. It's OK, but like just about any site that tries to look like a mobile app (I'm guessing its jQuery Mobile?) the animations are jerky and slow on my iPhone 5.

I find myself getting used to user interfaces and resisting change. Having to get used to something different sucks especially when it doesn't add new features. In time the Slashdot team will fix the issues and everyone will get used to the new look.

Great, an INVITE ONLY phone? That's a first.

IE provides no revenue for Microsoft?? Do you really think MSN would be the 7th highest ranking website in the USA (alexa), and live.com 6th if it weren't for all those people having MSN set to their homepage?

This article was obviously written by LimeLight. Speaking from personal experience their setup is inferior to Akamai. Even sites such as MySpace have dumped LimeLight in favor of Akamai.. An article about how caching helped the internet from melting would have been cool - but this thing goes overboard and is a blatent advertisement for Limelight and bashing of other companies which have a better product. I would hope Slashdot could do better and weed out this crap.