Slashdot Launches Re-Design
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Slashdot Launches Re-Design
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Re: Slashdot Launches Re-Design
#2I liked slashdot more when it was plain, quick-loading HTML. I liked most sites more when they were plain, quick-loading HTML. Ain't It Cool News is the only other one coming to mind at the moment, though.
Re: Slashdot Launches Re-Design
#3I liked slashdot more when it was plain, quick-loading HTML. I liked most sites more when they were plain, quick-loading HTML. Ain't It Cool News is the only other one coming to mind at the moment, though.
Reddit has been pushing it these days, and its performance has been awful for a while now (due mostly to growing pains, I reckon), but their aesthetic is still pretty plain. And of course this site definitely qualifies!
Re: Slashdot Launches Re-Design
#4I liked slashdot more when it was plain, quick-loading HTML. I liked most sites more when they were plain, quick-loading HTML. Ain't It Cool News is the only other one coming to mind at the moment, though.
Reddit has been pushing it these days, and its performance has been awful for a while now (due mostly to growing pains, I reckon), but their aesthetic is still pretty plain. And of course this site definitely qualifies!
It's not so much the design aesthetic as performance for me. Sometimes browsers just seem to choke or take more time on complicated AJAX for something as simple as making a comment.
Hacker News is great in that respect -- it's all simple and very responsive.
Re: Slashdot Launches Re-Design
#5All of the white really hurts my eyes and makes it unreadable .. not going back there anymore
Re: Slashdot Launches Re-Design
#6I liked slashdot more when it was plain, quick-loading HTML. I liked most sites more when they were plain, quick-loading HTML. Ain't It Cool News is the only other one coming to mind at the moment, though.
I just visited Ain’t It Cool News for the first time and I don’t really understand what’s plain about it. It’s ugly and was slowly loading for me.
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#7I was going to make a snarky comment like Slash..who? But I clicked and it the UI looks much better!
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#8It's unfortunate that they've jumped on the fixed positioning bandwagon. Non-scrolling headers/footers break the way Page Up and Page Down work, because the visible size is no longer the size of the scrollable area.
Luckily there's a user style in the Slashdot comments that changes the fixed elements to absolute positioning. It isn't a perfect solution, though (e.g. for when you use an alternate browser).
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#9This is probably the first good redesign that /. has done this century!
I actually stopped visiting Slashdot because the previous rounds of "improvement" to the comment system was always a pain in the butt if you had to switch tabs while typing. It will be good to be back.
Re: Slashdot Launches Re-Design
#10I liked slashdot more when it was plain, quick-loading HTML. I liked most sites more when they were plain, quick-loading HTML. Ain't It Cool News is the only other one coming to mind at the moment, though.
I just visited Ain’t It Cool News for the first time and I don’t really understand what’s plain about it. It’s ugly and was slowly loading for me.
It used to be quicker -- I was saying it was an example of one of those sites that was better before the "Web 2.0 redesign."