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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 ticho on Friday February 27 2015, @03:27PM
You know, one of these days, I really would like to know howthe hot grits meme was born. Any /. oldtimers who would care to enlighten?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Arik on Friday February 27 2015, @03:35PM
I will give you a clue to aid your quest, young padawan.
The full phrase is "Natalie Portman, naked and petrified, covered in hot grits."
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 3, Funny) by infodragon on Friday February 27 2015, @06:39PM
Got a beowulf cluster of those?
Don't settle for shampoo, demand real poo!
(Score: 2) by infodragon on Friday February 27 2015, @06:56PM
I found this I had posted log ago...
All your beowulf cluster of hot grits poured down Natalie Portman's pants are belong to us!
Don't settle for shampoo, demand real poo!
(Score: 3, Funny) by hemocyanin on Friday February 27 2015, @07:09PM
Yeah, but it's in Soviet Russia and when the grits froze, they damaged the system.
(Score: 2) by infodragon on Friday February 27 2015, @07:13PM
In Soviet Russia the grits freeze you!
Don't settle for shampoo, demand real poo!
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday February 27 2015, @05:49PM
I was a Slashdot old-timer who was there from almost the very beginning of the site, but in the transition from graduate school to work life I dropped out of the conversation for a few months at exactly the moment the hot grits meme started. Everybody cackled over it and cited it so heavily for the longest time that I tried a couple times to find out the origin, too, but unsuccessfully. In the end it's probably one of those "you had to be there" things. Unless another Slashdot old-timer was there and can explain?
Other Slashdot events and memes are etched in my memory, like the Jon Katz days, the RMS hordes, the "In the Soviet Union..." jokes, "I, for one, welcome our new * overlords" quips, "All Your Base Are Belong To Us," etc. I wonder if anyone has ever assembled an anthology of those Before Times?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Leebert on Friday February 27 2015, @08:31PM
I was around but I don't really remember it either. Given Everything2's association with Slashdot, I'd take their explanation as most likely to be accurate (http://everything2.com/title/A+Brief+History+of+Trolls):
More interesting claims from the person who allegedly started the "Naked & Petrified" meme: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/read.cgi?id=20000801&tid=9821 [userfriendly.org]
The Everything2 explanation rings some (very faint) bells in my memory.
(Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Saturday February 28 2015, @04:54AM
Parent has a low 4 digit SD UID (lower than his on SN!!) if that helps.
(Score:1^½, Radical)