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Comment: Trying too hard (Score 1, Insightful) 284

by nmb3000 (#46409355) Attached to: Interview: Ask Theo de Raadt What You Will


What happened? Did someone at Dice push Slashdot management to try and "reclaim technical roots"? Is someone a little worried about http://soylentnews.org/? Or maybe this is part of a last-ditch effort to increase revenue^W^W reclaim reader loyalty?



Perhaps not, but really, you guys are still trying way too hard now. I'd have thought you realized by now that successfully running a site like this is a marathon, not a sprint. Throwing up a few half-baked interviews with prominent open source figures isn't the answer.

Comment: Teaching Week (Score 1) 175

by PingXao (#46190539) Attached to: How Adobe Got Rid of Traditional Stack-Ranking Performance Reviews


Help US teach THEM a lesson about BETA.


Comment: Let the Olympics die (Score 5, Insightful) 578

by PingXao (#46190429) Attached to: US Cord Cutters Getting Snubbed From NBC's Olympic Coverage Online




Comment: Re:Bee Keepers and the Audience (Score 1) 365

by PingXao (#46190341) Attached to: Do Hypersonic Missiles Make Defense Systems Obsolete?



Comment: Monetization (Score 4, Interesting) 238

by PingXao (#46190215) Attached to: CERN Wants a New Particle Collider Three Times Larger Than the LHC





Comment: Re:The Why (Score 1) 2219

by nmb3000 (#46181919) Attached to: Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds!

As an aside, how about you fix simple 2-year old bugs in this site's CSS so that things like lists work?

li { list-style: none }

That's not very helpful.

It's hard to feel comfortable with the drastic changes being proposed (or shoved down our throats) when the old new site still doesn't render correctly.

Comment: The Why (Score 4, Insightful) 2219

by nmb3000 (#46180515) Attached to: Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds!

communicating about the How and the Why of this process

I think this is one of the biggest reasons you are getting such negative pushback. A very large part of the active and vocal Slashdot audience (the "community") probably share a similar viewpoint when it comes to change. Change for change's sake is bad, and if you want to change something that works just fine then you'd better be able to give me a good, objective reason. So far that just isn't something we've seen. What I see is a site that's been redesigned with two goals in mind:

  • Jump on the current web design bandwagon. For example: poor text contrast, gradients and transparency that slows things down, etc.
  • Water down and weaken the commenting system. The original beta made it clear that the drivers of this change felt that the Slashdot comment system was too complex and should be "simplified". Taking it to a flatter model with less information about posts and their relationships, in addition to "lazy" loading comments just says that your target audience must feel like "comments are hard, let's go shopping!"

We want to take our current content and all the stuff that matters to this community and deliver it on a site [that is] more accessible and shareable by a wider audience.

What exactly is it about the current site that makes it inaccessible? Which audience are you trying to reach? I'm quite serious -- knowing this may make it easier for people to accept change (assuming that the audiences you're reaching out to aren't "advertisers" and "market analytics"). Just going based on what you've said it sounds like you want to make Slashdot Yet Another generic news aggregator. Don't you remember Digg? That sad story should have taught you a few lessons about the value of a generic news aggregator and the results of alienating a community.

Will the new site finally support (even a small subset of) Unicode? Just adding support for that would probably make Slashdot accessible to more people than this absurd proposed redesign. No, I'm not kidding.

Comment: Re:Save Slashdot Classic! (Score 1) 127

"What is the linux equivalent of this "go to your windows" step?"

The linux equivalent is, "... get out your shinebox, open it and stick your head in and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!'"

Yes, the linux equivalent of "window" is now "shinebox".

Comment: How long have I been here? (Score 1) 188

by PingXao (#46171107) Attached to: Build an Open-Source Electric Car In About One Hour


Comment: Re:Boycott (Score 1) 573

by PingXao (#46171029) Attached to: HTML5 App For Panasonic TVs Rejected - JQuery Is a "Hack"




Comment: Re:Quite possibly indeed! But still... FUCK BETA! (Score 3, Insightful) 573

by nmb3000 (#46170983) Attached to: HTML5 App For Panasonic TVs Rejected - JQuery Is a "Hack"

Also, fuck beta.

Interestingly enough, they've also removed all/most of the fuckbeta tags that had been put on 20+ stories earlier. It looks like most other variations such as "betasucks" have also been removed.

Remember when tags used to be an open and fun way for the community to micro-comment on a story? 90% of readers here realized that Slashdot's tags were completely and utterly useless (they still haven't dumped the pointless story tag**), so using them as a platform for humor or community feedback was both clever and fun. Oh, yeah, all that was before abortion that is Dicedot.

Fuck beta.

** Wow, that page is screwed up. Not only did it take almost a minute to load for me (what the hell are you guys running these newage bullshit pages on, Ruby?), but after all that it only displayed about 50 links, and most of them are duplicates (dupes, on MY Slashdot!? Inconceivable!!).
