My problem with /. was that the stories were not voted in on by the community but rather by a select few curators who added editorial content in the headlines.
And they're still using the Bill Gates Borg icon?
Slashdot Launches Re-Design
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Re: Slashdot Launches Re-Design
#52Slashdot? I read HN.
I scan the RSS feed, ignore the dupes from HN, reject the political stuff, and glance over the remaining tech headlines.
Of the three that might appeal to me, I read the abstracts, and occasionally follow the links to the original articles. I ignore the comments because I never log in anymore. The only ad I might see is in the upper right.
The new design seems to confirm that I'm not alone.
Re: Slashdot Launches Re-Design
#53Now it looks like a framed site from good ol' 1997 again. Fixed header, fixed menu cluttering up your 800x600 pixel smartphone screen, and a small scrollable area (of which most is white space) with the actual content. Wow, that went seriously wrong.
Re: Slashdot Launches Re-Design
#54My problem with /. was that the stories were not voted in on by the community but rather by a select few curators who added editorial content in the headlines. And they're still using the Bill Gates Borg icon?
That could easily be called a feature, looking at how Reddit's focus changed. Hacker News is able to keep it's narrow focus, but it's the exception rather than the rule.
You're right about the editorial content in the headlines and summary though but I like that the stories have a small blurb explaining the story unlike Reddit or Hacker News.
Re: Slashdot Launches Re-Design
#55I am glad they kept much of the original design, especially the rounded edges and the green. Yes, it's not pretty, but for me it's like listening to an oldie station. Slashdot was there in the 90s when you felt like participating in a revolution for using Linux (or, if you wanted to be even more avantgarde, one of the BSDs). It helped people get through the time of the Columbine massacre, was the best place to discuss the Halloween documents, offered endless First-Post/Nathalie-Portman trolling opportunities, and with Jon Katz you always had something to talk (or complain) about.
The problem is that the culture did not really evolve. There's nothing that Slashdot stands for anymore. I wonder whether it would be a good idea for Slashdot, now that the readers as well as the authors are older, to cover topics for geeks in their 30s or 40s: homes, families, kids... I believe that there would be a range of interesting topics, and I don't know any news site that covers them.
Re: Slashdot Launches Re-Design
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Yes, that is why I added the probably. The vast majority of rounded corners I see are still done with images however.
Re: Slashdot Launches Re-Design
#57It'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).
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.
It also seems to break their "Parent" links -- it ends up with the top bar partially covering the comment's header. I've yet to encounter a web site where floating title bar is a good idea.