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Help Test Exciting All-New Slashdot "Banjo"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the more-then-just-a-sea-monkey dept.

After far too long in development, Slashdot is ready to move to the latest version of Slashcode. To this end, we really need people to test our development box, aka Banjo. This is not a load test, so please don't beat the crap out of it (yet!). Please read comments, post comments, and test out wacky new features like Journaling and the assorted new messaging options. It is mostly identical but there are several cool surprises. We have many optimizations still to add, and only have a fraction of our "real" hardware on Banjo so don't worry about speed, instead look for things that don't work right (or at all!) and send those bug reports. (Known issues: imported comments are misattributed, and comment searching is disabled. Don't report these things please ;))

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  1. Re:Feature suggestion by Tower · · Score: 4, Informative

    Or they could have just posted the announcement in the Science and Apache sections. Many less people, and the S/Nr is much higher. You could get a lot of helpful work done, with less system stress and less pre-paste posting...

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  2. Load balancer is fubar by krow · · Score: 4, Informative

    The arrowpoint is being "adjusted" at the moment, so yeah, the site is fucked till that is done. Nice to see that it doesn't crash despite being completey swamped with connections :)

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  3. Re:Why doesn't Slashdot get "Slashdotted"? by Andrewkov · · Score: 3, Informative
    If everyone else on the internet suffers from the "Slashdot Effect" then how come Slashdot itself doesn't get "Slashdotted"? ;)

    It's called bandwidth and clustered servers!! Check out the hardware section of the FAQ.

  4. What they should have done... by b0r1s · · Score: 2, Informative

    I agree ... the intelligent thing would have been to post it to the front page of slashcode.com and let THEM find the bugs/features. THEN put it on a decent set of boxes and post it to the front page....

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  5. Check your User Info page on Banjo by NonSequor · · Score: 2, Informative
    My karma is 61. Looks as though it always keeps the last 24 comments in the posting history rather than just expiring them after a period of time.

    I have no idea where the extra 38 karma points came from though.

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