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byAnonymous Coward writes:
Yes, yes, tell me more about this novel concept, I have never heard of the term before
byAnonymous Coward writes:
When's the Whitelist for Dummies book coming out?
Gotta get up to date!
byAnonymous Coward writes:
Man, I wish there were appstores for whitelisted software!
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Man, I wish there were appstores for whitelisted software!
Please post this to new articles if it hasn't been posted yet. (Copy-paste the html from here [pastebin.com] so links don't get mangled!)
On February 5, 2014, Slashdot announced through a javascript popup that they are starting to "move in to" the new Slashdot Beta design. Slashdot Beta is a trend-following attempt to give Slashdot a fresh look, an approach that has led to less space for text and an abandonment of the traditional Slashdot look. Much worse than that, Slashdot Beta fundamentally breaks the classic Slashdot d
byJaruzel ( 804522 ) writes:
I'm SO sick of this 'Fuck Beta' crap.
YOU the /. community are one of most technically-able groups of users on the internet. Therefore, instead of whining about a FREE service that you no longer enjoy, why not group together and build something better? If it's better than /. (not hard...) then your user base will come. A handful of you could throw up a simple blogging system in a few hours, whilst you work on something permanent...
So instead of bitching about it to corporate owners who do not care, get off your arses and build something better.
http://altslashdot.org/ [altslashdot.org] seems to be offline at the time of writing - a good effort but when I did look at it yesterday it seems to be 90% ideas, and sod all development. The best sites on the net, didn't spring into life fully formed, they evolved. The important thing is to just get something up and working as fast as possible.
(Why am I not joining the effort? I'm a Windows guy, my linux foo is simply not good enough else I would.)
-Jar
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bydcollins ( 135727 ) writes:
"So instead of bitching about it to corporate owners who do not care, get off your arses and build something better."
There is a cost to forking the site; namely that the existing data of comments and discussions are locked up by Dice. So it's sensible to apply some political organizing and public protest in the hope that Slashdot comes to its senses and not effectively destroy itself with Beta. If that doesn't work, then of course forking the site is a reasonable backup plan. But not optimal due to lost dat
byCulture20 ( 968837 ) writes:
It's probably not offline. I bet it's altslashdotted.
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