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Slashdot Beta Surrenders - The 'New' User Interface is the 'Old' User Interface - Almost

posted by janrinok on Friday February 27 2015, @01:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-knew-we-were-right dept.

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.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by arashi no garou on Friday February 27 2015, @02:42PM

    by arashi no garou (2796) on Friday February 27 2015, @02:42PM (#150441)

    I still can't figure out why their page automatically sends me to the bottom as soon as I load it, or click any internal link. It started doing that about a year ago, and it's one of the many reasons I rarely go there. Yes, I can just hit the "Home" key and shoot back to the top, but I shouldn't have to. And it's not my browser; it does it to me on all OSes and Chrome/Chromium/Firefox/Iceweasel.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 27 2015, @03:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 27 2015, @03:55PM (#150493)

    It does this to me as well, sometimes when loading the comments.

  • (Score: 1) by Cenan on Friday February 27 2015, @05:17PM

    by Cenan (4988) on Friday February 27 2015, @05:17PM (#150554)

    I think there is a bug in the /. view settings that reads an outdated cookie or something. I see the same behavior as you do, but it varies how far, or if it even, sends me down the comment list. Ctrl+Home goes to the top of the page by the way, at least on Windows.

    • (Score: 2) by arashi no garou on Friday February 27 2015, @06:39PM

      by arashi no garou (2796) on Friday February 27 2015, @06:39PM (#150615)

      Just the "Home" key does it for me, always has. I figured it's a leftover cookie but even if I open a clean browsing session it does it, on any version of Firefox or Chrome. IE doesn't have the bug (for me), and text browsers on *nix are fine.

      • (Score: 2, Funny) by Cenan on Friday February 27 2015, @06:42PM

        by Cenan (4988) on Friday February 27 2015, @06:42PM (#150618)

        Jesus F Christ. I've been using Ctrl+Home for years without knowing that it was just the home key doing the magic...

        I guess the bug has to be some sort of server side user setting then.