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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: 2) by q.kontinuum on Friday February 27 2015, @02:29PM
Yes, I know (was being mentioned here [soylentnews.org] already), but since we have the yellow star already as a subscribers-symbol it would at least be consistent. And yellow stars are used nowadays in many famous paces.
However, maybe the images don't have to be obviously different. The main point was to establish a way to let people transfer money to soylentnews, without making it a clear donation. But I'm pretty sure none of the soylentils would even dream of enforcing any restrictive license conditions anyway, so in the end anyone could probably use the picture (s)he wants.
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