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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, Interesting) by stormreaver on Friday February 27 2015, @02:39PM
I'm a new refugee from Slashdot.
So am I. I have been on Slashdot for about 18 years, and I just can't take the stupid Slashdot managerial decisions anymore. The last straw for me was wanting to post comments to two different stories, but Slashdot said I had to wait for an indeterminately long amount of time before I could post to the second story. My previous posting was three minutes prior to my second. That is just too stupid for words.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Thexalon on Friday February 27 2015, @03:26PM
First off, welcome to both of you! It was definitely a little bit quiet in the early days, but since then I've never looked back from making the move.
Secondly, although I'm not a dev, you'll notice that for most major decisions, we the users are the management. Check out this discussion [soylentnews.org] from just this last week for an example of that in use.
Thirdly, aren't you glad to have a nice low UID? In another 5-10 years, you'll be able to make the "You must be new here" jokes!
Fourthly, consider chipping in some cold hard cash, which is one of the bigger problems facing Soylent right now.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Friday February 27 2015, @04:14PM
The users are the management
It's a lofty and tricky goal, but we try.
(Score:1^½, Radical)
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 27 2015, @04:40PM
Speaking as a user, I know I'm very trying.
(English, she isn't my language's mother.)
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Friday February 27 2015, @06:11PM
Mods -- this AC needs s +5 funny.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 27 2015, @06:13PM
(Score: 5, Funny) by Leebert on Friday February 27 2015, @04:57PM
Sadly, in my case my /. UID [slashdot.org] is lower than my Soylent UID. :(
(Score: 1) by stormreaver on Friday February 27 2015, @06:23PM
Sadly, in my case my /. UID is lower than my Soylent UID. :(
I lurked on Slashdot for a long time before registering an account, and had to settle for a UID just under 60000. I didn't want to make the same mistake again.
(Score: 2) by Leebert on Friday February 27 2015, @08:42PM
Yeah, the only reason I signed up for /. relatively early is because I wanted configurable slashboxes. Oddly enough, by my memory I waited quite a while to do it...
(Score: 2) by el_oscuro on Sunday March 01 2015, @12:57AM
I got into ./ very late and thus had a high UID of about 1M. So when SN started, I jumped all over it and created my account quickly, and hit the jackpot! With the possible exception of 42, there is no geekier number then the hull number of the USS Enterprise.
SoylentNews is Bacon! [nueskes.com]
(Score: 1) by Zanothis on Monday March 02 2015, @08:35PM
I regret to inform you that the USS Enterprise was NCC-1701. You may hand your geek card to the attendant on your way out.
(Score: 2) by zafiro17 on Monday March 02 2015, @09:10PM
Clearly, Zanothis' post is the real tragedy in this chain.
How'd you like to be user number 667? or 31416? Major suckage. I must be a sucker for forums because I've spent the past year on Pipedot and Soylent, contributed financially to both, while mostly preferring the comp.misc group on Usenet and even occasionally dabbling on Slashdot (mostly for the purpose of posting things where my signature provides some visibility to soy, pipe, and comp.misc). Got to say, they've each got their advantages.
Soy's got the best community at this point, though it could still use better comments, and this whole "we are losing money while employing multiple devs and dozens of servers" thing worries me. But I'm currently rocking the VT100 interface, which is pure gloriousness, truly - I love it. Pipe's got a great interface done in PHP that renders well on tablets and smartphones in a way neither Slashdot nor, frankly, Soylent does. But it's a pretty thin community and it's often the last to get the news. That's really a shame. Comp.misc makes sense if you already knew and loved Usenet, and I'm not alone in noticing the world has moved on. But Usenet is awesome in a way that's hard to evoke - it predates HTTP and the WWW and a lot of other stuff, and being able to connect your RSS reader to a script that forwards the post to comp.misc is hella-convenient.
Point is just: I'm on all these sites because I benefit from each of them, and hopefully contribute to each of them, in different ways. It's all good, and I'm not praying for /. to burn to the ground any more than I'm hoping for the destruction of any other site. Just glad to be in places where nerds congregate. Let's keep this party rocking!
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis - Jack Handey
(Score: 1) by Zanothis on Tuesday March 03 2015, @07:24PM
I guess I got hit by Poe's law. Should've used the sarcasm tags in suggesting the handing in of the geek card. I did realize after the fact that my post was going to come off as dickish, as a result I was expecting to take a hit to my karma. If el_oscuro feels particularly offended by my comment, I'm more than willing to provide an apology.
My point was one of fact checking. Without someone pointing out mistakes I'd still think that "a few" meant two because they rhyme like when I was 8. I'm wrong --frequently-- and I expect to be called on it. I made a correction and tried (and failed, apparently) to inject some humor into the lesson. We're posting on the internet; I had hoped we were grown up enough to be able to take some criticism.
(Score: 5, Funny) by new here on Friday February 27 2015, @05:34PM
No need to wait, I was new here all along.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 27 2015, @03:49PM
> That is just too stupid for words.
It is if the words are posted within three minutes of each other.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 27 2015, @04:08PM
Three minutes? When I don't login, sometimes I'm forced to wait over an hour after posting after posting just a few comments.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 27 2015, @04:18PM
Three minutes? When I don't login, sometimes I'm forced to wait over an hour after posting after posting just a few comments.
As an anonymous poaster, I can tell you the wait time is THREE HOURS if you post something every day. So I don't even bother opening slashdot anymore. Soylent has much better content anyway.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 27 2015, @10:47PM
Thanks!