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