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Welcome to the World of Tomorrow... Today!

posted by Dopefish on Monday February 17 2014, @02:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the allow-me-to-introduce-myself dept.
Dopefish writes

Greetings Soylentils! And welcome to SoylentNews!

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  • (Score: 1) by cloying on Monday February 17 2014, @05:36AM

    by cloying (91) on Monday February 17 2014, @05:36AM (#408)

    Now it just needs to be green!

  • (Score: 1) by unitron on Monday February 17 2014, @05:40AM

    by unitron (70) on Monday February 17 2014, @05:40AM (#414) Journal

    "Now it just needs to be green!"

    Well, you know what they say about it not being easy.

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    • (Score: 1) by cloying on Monday February 17 2014, @05:48AM

      by cloying (91) on Monday February 17 2014, @05:48AM (#422)

      Didn't know the slashcott was extended, has this been previously publicized? Makes sense though. To be honest having a week away, I'm far more keen on posting here

      • (Score: 1) by unitron on Monday February 17 2014, @06:09AM

        by unitron (70) on Monday February 17 2014, @06:09AM (#436) Journal

        Pretty difficult to publicize since the Slashcotters aren't necessarily in one place, and of course there's not much way to get it visible over at /., but I've done my best to be a nuisance about it everywhere it was worth mentioning it.

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  • (Score: 1) by weilawei on Monday February 17 2014, @05:41AM

    by weilawei (109) on Monday February 17 2014, @05:41AM (#415)
    I agree. The red is kinda hard on the eyes. Maybe we could get something a little more toned down. Keep the candy bar though!

    • (Score: 5, Informative) by combatserver on Monday February 17 2014, @09:26AM

      by combatserver (38) on Monday February 17 2014, @09:26AM (#525)

      "Maybe we could get something a little more toned down"

      The red is the DEFAULT theme for slashcode. The focus was on making everything WORK first, pretty later. But, it's in the works.

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      • (Score: 1) by weilawei on Monday February 17 2014, @10:06AM

        by weilawei (109) on Monday February 17 2014, @10:06AM (#539)
        Of course. The SN team has done a fantastic job getting things shipshape. I'm looking forward to plenty of lively fun here. ^_^

      • (Score: 1) by TheRaven on Monday February 17 2014, @02:18PM

        by TheRaven (270) on Monday February 17 2014, @02:18PM (#710) Journal
        Is the D2 stuff part of Slashcode? Much as I like sites not needing JavaScript, it's annoying having the proliferation of tabs that is caused by 'reply' and 'more comments...' links opening new pages.
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      • (Score: 1) by excelsior_gr on Monday February 17 2014, @04:46PM

        by excelsior_gr (738) on Monday February 17 2014, @04:46PM (#825)

        Yeah, don't forget to add whitespace ;-)

      • (Score: 1) by edIII on Monday February 17 2014, @07:41PM

        by edIII (791) on Monday February 17 2014, @07:41PM (#986)

        Yes. We could tone it down a little and perhaps add a few things....

        However, let's be very careful going down that road lest we have our heads shoved up our asses and we try to knock off Ars Technica poorly and end up treating ourselves like an audience again ;)

        I'm just happy to keep this interface period. There was never anything else quite like the experience of posting on Slashdot, and thankfully now, SoylentNews.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2014, @08:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2014, @08:39AM (#504)

    I'm liking this color.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2014, @08:42AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2014, @08:42AM (#506)

      Replying to myself. Red is the color of the persistence of vision from green. This site can be said to be about the persistence of a vision.

    • (Score: 1) by carguy on Monday February 17 2014, @02:23PM

      by carguy (568) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 17 2014, @02:23PM (#717)

      > I'm liking this color.
      Seconded, easy on the eyes (at least on my screen).

      • (Score: 1) by Thexalon on Monday February 17 2014, @02:44PM

        by Thexalon (636) on Monday February 17 2014, @02:44PM (#744)

        That's not "easy on the eyes". Easy on the eyes would be Natalie Portman.

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