Slashdot? I read HN.
Slashdot was here before HN.
It is likely Slashdot will still be here when HN is gone.
There's a lesson in that.
Slashdot Launches Re-Design
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Re: Slashdot Launches Re-Design
#42Slashdot? I read HN.
Slashdot was here before HN. It is likely Slashdot will still be here when HN is gone. There's a lesson in that.
http://trends.google.com/websites?q=news.ycombinator.com%2C+...
They're sinking in the last year or so while HN is rising somewhat.
Re: Slashdot Launches Re-Design
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google's Marissa Mayer said it best: The web likes to be square. Rounded corners and other elements slows down a site.
Huh, why would that be? Drawing a round corner is in fact more complex than drawing a square one, but surely for a few dozen rounded corners the number of additional CPU cycles spent pales in comparison to things like anti-aliased font rendering, calculating CSS box model layouts, decompressing gzipped contents and the myriad of other tasks that a browser has to perform during loading and rendering of a web site nowa…
For 4 rounded corners you probably need to download 4 images. Thats 4 extra connections to the server to connect to, download, process.
It isn't the processor time that is taking longer its the transfer time.
Re: Slashdot Launches Re-Design
#44The old Slashdot design bothered me so much I proposed a minimalist layout last year: http://nylira.com/p/slashdot
Thoughts on this one:
Slashdot's homepage is much cleaner than before, but the thick green bars denoting each story is visually oppressive. I understand that it's a branding element, but it hampers readability.
The fixed navigation annoys me, but that's a personal preference: I don't think the menus are important enough to be constantly on-screen.
I see they still haven't added a max-width to text columns either. It's difficult reading comments on a 1440px+ screen.
Re: Slashdot Launches Re-Design
#45I don't like the feel to it. When scrolling it feels sluggish and the screen seems to flicker.
I noticed the same (i7-920, FF 3.6) - after removing the fixed position bar (using firebug) the site at least seems significantly less sluggish. Weird how a seemingly simple thing can hurt performance so much (or maybe it's just a psychological effect ?)
On a large screen I find it visually more pleasing than the last version but I stoppped using the site completely after they introduced that silly ajax-abuse and the new one wouldn't make me come back if for that reason alone.
Re: Slashdot Launches Re-Design
#46I was hoping Slashdot was going to reduce the huge amount of padding around each comment, but no luck. For instance, on my screen right now I can fit 13 comments on HN or reddit but no more than 5 on slashdot. This makes it much harder to navigate comment threads, connect replies with comments, etc. I'm I the only one who thinks this is easily the worst part of Slashdot? It's reminiscent of a bad forum where each 3-w…
> a 5-line signature
Surely you mean a 200 pixel signature containing an animated image? :-)
Re: Slashdot Launches Re-Design
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huh, why would that be? Drawing a round corner is in fact more complex than drawing a square one, but surely for a few dozen rounded corners the number of additional CPU cycles spent pales in comparison to things like anti-aliased font rendering, calculating CSS box model layouts, decompressing gzipped contents and the myriad of other tasks that a browser has to perform during loading and rendering of a web site nowa…
For 4 rounded corners you probably need to download 4 images. Thats 4 extra connections to the server to connect to, download, process. It isn't the processor time that is taking longer its the transfer time.
Not anymore you don't.
Re: Slashdot Launches Re-Design
#48Slashdot? I read HN.
Slashdot was here before HN. It is likely Slashdot will still be here when HN is gone. There's a lesson in that.
> It is likely Slashdot will still be here when HN is gone.
My gut feeling says no. I used to read Slashdot as much as I now read HN or Reddit. I hardly ever go there any more, and when I do it just doesn't seem interesting.
For me, Slashdot lacks the buzz it used to have.
Re: Slashdot Launches Re-Design
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huh, why would that be? Drawing a round corner is in fact more complex than drawing a square one, but surely for a few dozen rounded corners the number of additional CPU cycles spent pales in comparison to things like anti-aliased font rendering, calculating CSS box model layouts, decompressing gzipped contents and the myriad of other tasks that a browser has to perform during loading and rendering of a web site nowa…
For 4 rounded corners you probably need to download 4 images. Thats 4 extra connections to the server to connect to, download, process. It isn't the processor time that is taking longer its the transfer time.
Most modern browsers (all but IE I believe) will let you round corners with CSS. An extra line or so of CSS is hardly much of a transfer overhead.
I believe current thinking (on non-enterprise sites anyway) is to let the IE people have their square corners, and those on new browsers get all the curvy goodness.
Re: Slashdot Launches Re-Design
#50The old Slashdot design bothered me so much I proposed a minimalist layout last year: http://nylira.com/p/slashdot Thoughts on this one: Slashdot's homepage is much cleaner than before, but the thick green bars denoting each story is visually oppressive. I understand that it's a branding element, but it hampers readability. The fixed navigation annoys me, but that's a personal preference: I don't think the menus are…
Much prefer your clean design, but I'd move the story icon to the whitespace under the author/submitter info on the left.
Did you design a comment page too?