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Today we stand proud, fellow Soylentils. Two stories have been received to explain why:

Slashdot.org switches accounts to Classic-like interface

Preston writes:

It now appears that Slashdot has now completely changed its interface to the new "beta" interface - which looks almost the same as the "old" interface. Users can no longer view the non-beta classic site, which is being reported by users all around the site.

The only official news on the matter is in the form of a journal entry.

Does this mean it's time to go after our original mission and let them know we're here?

"Beta" Delenda est!

McD writes:

Remember Slashdot? Remember Beta? This blog post might be tagged "sudden outbreak of common sense," if it wasn't well over a year too late:

...effective today, we've jettisoned the Slashdot Beta platform out the side portal. [...] After heavily experimenting on the Beta platform and splitting traffic between Classic and Beta, we've made some decisions about which platform changes ultimately make sense: starting today, we're unifying users back on our Classic platform.

A raft of minor changes came along with this announcement. Still no comment, though, on whether those users are a "community" or an "audience."

And frankly, that's why soylentnews is better.

1. "Preston" - https://soylentnews.org/~Preston/
2. "Slashdot" - http://slashdot.org/
3. "around" - http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7021487&cid=49142393
4. "the" - http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7021679&cid=49144081
5. "site" - http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7021657&cid=49143141
6. "journal entry" - http://slashdot.org/journal/2171299/the-only-constant-is-change
7. "McD" - https://soylentnews.org/~McD/
8. "This blog post" - http://slashdot.org/journal/2171299/the-only-constant-is-change

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