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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: 2) by DECbot on Saturday February 28 2015, @02:37AM

    by DECbot (832) on Saturday February 28 2015, @02:37AM (#150877) Journal

    I agree with you about the scaling differences between 5,000 users and 100,000 users. What I propose is instead of a scaling dictated by the developers, have a set of sliders in the user's preferences that can tune the scaling curve. Thus the users can regulate themselves how many mod points are required to achieve a +5. Perhaps one slider isn't enough if you want something other than a linear scale. Might be pretty neat to set your scaling algorithm as various types of series.

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    cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   2  
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 28 2015, @07:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 28 2015, @07:33PM (#151170)

    Interesting ideas.

    Still leaves later posters languishing at 0/1s though :(

    The only way for you to get 'invited' into the conversation at a high rating is to post early (which on a high volume site would mean camping out). What you guys are saying nails my first problem the +5/-1 issue. However it does not get my second complaint. Later posts that are still interesting staying at 0/1 as people have moved onto the next front page story usually. I see these 2 issues on a lot of sites that have a vote/rank system. Newer posts get little attention, earlier posts get tons of 'me too' vote.

    What is even more of an issue is 'first post' can actually set the whole tone of the conversation afterwards. I have done it by accident a few times myself on this site and the other one. As +5 dominates the conversation and is near the top of the list.

    • (Score: 2) by DECbot on Sunday March 01 2015, @12:42AM

      by DECbot (832) on Sunday March 01 2015, @12:42AM (#151325) Journal

      So, older threads should have a staleness score independent of the comment score. Users can vote on freshness, putting that entire thread towards the top. Might be interesting.

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      cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base