On 02/06/2014 06:35 AM, Barry Roberts wrote: > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote: >> Or am I the only one who still habitually wastes time with the >> occasional slashdot addiction? If I had resgistered my username when I >> first started reading slashdot my id would probably be 5 digits or less. > My user number is 8620, and I haven't kicked the habit yet. > >> If any of you still read slashdot, what do you think of the new beta? >> Personally I dislike it mainly because I'm old, but partly because I'm >> inflexible, but what do you web design gurus on this list think of it? >> Is it truly as bad as most of the commenters and moderators seem to think? > I don't like it much, but I'm admittedly old, inflexible and > curmudgeonly, so I'm trying to withhold judgement. It is cleaner, and > I can't quantify exactly why I don't like it, other than it just seems > harder to read with my old eyes. > > You can't quantify it? Imagine a beowulf cluster of slashdot-beta. Does that help?
I feel like everytime I turn around some poor, starving liberal-arts-grad-turned-web-designer is convincing some upper-manager that the present site interface is old and curmudgeonly in hopes of scoring a few meals and a letter of reference using nothing but photoshop and Drupal for Dummies. What follows usually resembles a major train wreck. ;-Daniel /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
