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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 27 2015, @03:52PM
> but this place is heads and tails better than when we first launched
Right because that work was about site functionality, just like Raven was talking about. You are argureeing with me.
> As for the karma and moderation, I think they're on the right track with wanting to experiment and see how things go.
I don't. There has never been even a remotely substantiated case that there is a problem that needs fixing. Just a couple of loud-mouths and some agreeable responses because some people will always complain especially when complaining is zero-cost.
> And there's no reason why they can't work on both karma / moderation and the other stuff at the same time.
Dev resources are finite.
(Score: 3, Informative) by mrcoolbp on Friday February 27 2015, @04:09PM
I'm not a dev either, but I'll throw my opinion in the ring. I am pushing my devs to work on the new subscription options and reducing our server costs right now. Once that's taken care of, I would really like to see them spend some time on some of the basic nice-to-have commenting functionality that is being discussed above.
(Score:1^½, Radical)
(Score: 2) by cmn32480 on Saturday February 28 2015, @04:14PM
Glad to hear this. It smells suspiciously like long term thinking. You are working on reducing costs, keep things functional, and find ways to help our community raise more money to cover costs all at once? Excellent.
The way I read the last discussion on karma and moderation seemed to be mostly "leave it alone, it ain't really broken". Perhaps I am incorrect.
It behooves us to be thinking more along the lines of what you are saying above rather than tinkering.
"It's a dog eat dog world, and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear" - Norm Peterson
(Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Saturday February 28 2015, @04:24PM
Although, I stay informed of their work as much as possible, I'm not on the dev team so I can't speak for them. Further, as I understand it, having (a) talented CSS and/or JS (and CSS?) person(s) familiar with perl that was willing to dive into SoylentCode would make this a much more attainable goal in the near future.
(Score:1^½, Radical)