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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

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.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Appalbarry on Friday February 27 2015, @03:27PM

    by Appalbarry (66) on Friday February 27 2015, @03:27PM (#150473) Journal

    Seriously. When I read "First, we've smoothed the way videos show up on the site. .... So we've made our videos fit better into the page and the Slashdot comment system, rather than feeling like they're on a separate site. Please check out the new video page," I stay away.

    Especially since they're apparently autoplay

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  • (Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Friday February 27 2015, @05:14PM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Friday February 27 2015, @05:14PM (#150550) Homepage

    Especially since they're apparently autoplay

    I didn't even think it was possible, but they also managed to make autoplay even more annoying by a) only having the videos start playing about 7 seconds after the page has loaded, which is enough time for you to assume it won't autoplay, and to have scrolled down into the comments and b) on my system, at least, playing audio and no video.

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