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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, @11:59PM
I don't think that's necessarily true. Maybe it isn't done intentionally, but a lot of the submissions from gewg_ and frojack that make it to the front page tend to be overtly leftist or otherwise political in nature, with little to no merit. At least Hugh Pickens keeps his multitude of submissions somewhat relevant.
Then there were the submissions about that robber in Missouri who got shot to death after grabbing for a cop's gun. That quickly devolved into false accusations of racism against anyone who dared to look at the incident objectively.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 28 2015, @04:54AM
Too bad that doesn't align with your prejudices.
...and I see that you're still pounding on your racist-lies drum trying to convince folks that your false narrative of what happened that day in Missouri is true.
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Saturday February 28 2015, @05:05AM
Guys, there will always be disagreement and argument, that's a good thing.
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(Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Saturday February 28 2015, @05:06AM
Feel free to submit other stories if you'd like to see them included. gewg_ submits a great deal of stories for us, and we appreciate that. Also try to remember: it's nearly impossible to have absolutely no bias on anything, but our editors do aim for that.
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