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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
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!
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.
(Score: 5, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday February 27 2015, @02:27PM
Useful? Who ever said we were useful? We account for thousands of hours a week of lost production from you lot reading and ranting at work. We are anti-production and proud of it.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Touché) by q.kontinuum on Friday February 27 2015, @02:34PM
This doesn't sound like community ;-) By submitting some crappy stories and starting some wild discussions I think I could claim to be part of "We" as well, as could most of the soylentils here.
(Seriously, I do acknowledge&&appreciate your work on the backend, and that you are part of a team doing a bit more here, but that part does not necessarily impair our productivity, unless you intentionally start to introduce some bugs.)
Registered IRC nick on chat.soylentnews.org: qkontinuum
(Score: 3, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday February 27 2015, @02:42PM
C'mon, guy, I love the site as much as anyone but if you're surfing it at work, it's cutting into productivity. I know the dev hours I've put in and the reading/aruging time as well have both certainly cut into mine. If you're going to waste time at work do it proudly is all I'm saying.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Friday February 27 2015, @03:06PM
You won't hear an argument from my side there ;-) I was just referring to your distinction between "us" and "you", while when it comes to the time-wasting aspect, there should only be an "us" in a community project. And, of course, I wasn't serious.
Registered IRC nick on chat.soylentnews.org: qkontinuum
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday February 27 2015, @05:10PM
Ah, meant "we" as in the site, which is everybody. "You lot" was essentially everyone but me.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by The Archon V2.0 on Friday February 27 2015, @06:29PM
This is starting to sound like the profound map-screen wisdom Splinter gave me in the Ninja Turtles game on the C64.
"We must save April! We as in the plural. Meaning all of us except for me."
Good to know you aren't using the royal "we" there, master. Anything in that rodent noggin of yours about clearing really dickishly-designed low ceiling jumps or not getting trapped when screen transitions spawn me in the wrong place? No? OK, then.
(And with the addition of a comment on a childhood cartoon property this is officially a complete, proper, and irredeemable productivity-wasting thread.)
(Score: 3, Insightful) by ticho on Friday February 27 2015, @03:24PM
You can look at it as providing a wholesome way to unwind during brief periods of downtime between bursts of work. This site is therefore increasing productivity - at least mine. :-)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 27 2015, @04:08PM
Lost production? When my boss catches me surfing SN and asks me what I'm doing I reply, in my driest robot voice, "recalibrating".
(Score: 5, Informative) by paulej72 on Friday February 27 2015, @05:49PM
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