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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, Informative) by paulej72 on Friday February 27 2015, @05:39PM

    by paulej72 (58) on Friday February 27 2015, @05:39PM (#150568) Journal

    I would also like to point out than no one on our dev team seems to be enthusiastic about coding JS and the AJAX backend. The code we started with we missing a lot of the JS features that would have made doing in line commenting easy. As such we had to kill them off. The AJAX engine we inherited would probably need a major overhaul to even work properly with the site as we have changed many things on the back end.

    We have this on the todo, but given that there are just three of us doing the coding in our spare time, it will not be soon. What we will probably be able to code faster is getting mods and comments to return you to the same place you were at when done. This will benefit non JS users so it seems like a good intermediate step in our progression.

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  • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday February 28 2015, @03:57AM

    by Reziac (2489) on Saturday February 28 2015, @03:57AM (#150905) Homepage

    SN works well enough right now that I don't feel a huge loss. Take your time and get it right, I say.

    But when you get there, can we please have sane page titles when I save a page, without having to copy/paste from the headline? That feature, I miss. Right now they all want to be "article.pl.htm", which shows an utter lack of imagination. :P~

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    • (Score: 2) by NCommander on Saturday February 28 2015, @09:59AM

      by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Saturday February 28 2015, @09:59AM (#151007) Homepage Journal

      This feature is incredibly irritating to code. It should enter the realm of *possible* once we finish migration to MP2 (scheduled for the next site update), but /code hooks directly into Apache to inject rewrite logic so you can't do it with just mod_rewrite rules, and we would still have to fix the underlying code to spit out the new link style. I might try to squeeze it into the next site update though.

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      • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday February 28 2015, @02:41PM

        by Reziac (2489) on Saturday February 28 2015, @02:41PM (#151057) Homepage

        Oh. It's been a feature on /. for so long, I had no idea it was such a PITA to achieve. I'm assuming whatever /. did won't just work here, right?

        But I will sure appreciate it when it happens! I realise this is just a "nuisance to user" deficiency, but it sure does cause a lot of "where'd I put that damn file?" and "shit! which one did I just overwrite??"

        Thanks again for making SN a great place to hang out.

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        • (Score: 2) by NCommander on Saturday February 28 2015, @07:22PM

          by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Saturday February 28 2015, @07:22PM (#151167) Homepage Journal

          It was coded after slashcode was closed up, else we would already have had it :(

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          • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday February 28 2015, @07:59PM

            by Reziac (2489) on Saturday February 28 2015, @07:59PM (#151180) Homepage

            Oh. I hadn't realised it got closed up. :( That must have been a long time ago!

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