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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. barg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    blaharg

  2. Uhm... by Uruk · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Banjo.slashdot.org seems to be running veeeeeeeeeeery slowly.

    Can slashdot slashdot itself?

    BTW, I like the Space Ghost image on the front page, although given CmdrTaco's other interests I was kinda expecting some quasi-porn Japanime type image. :)

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  3. Wow! by absurd_spork · · Score: 0, Redundant

    As far as I can see, the machine might as well be offline. This must be the first time that Slashdot slashdots itself.

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  4. For me at least... by Judg3 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    It seems banjo got /.'ed.

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  5. slashdot slashdotted? by abe1x · · Score: -1, Redundant

    hmm this went up only minutes ago and it already won't load for me. has slashdot slashdotted slashdot?

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  6. Self-referential Irony by bentini · · Score: -1, Redundant
    Is Slashdot going to slashdot itself? Not a load test and you put it on the front page?

    Oy Vey!

  7. If you didn't want to 'load test' it by Vector+Inspector · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Then why did you link to it in your post? Silly taco.
    Heh. ./ slashdotted itself.
    BTW, I had been wondering what this was for.

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  8. Slashdotted by qslack · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I clicked on the link when there were 0 comments on this story, yet it is completely unreachable.

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  9. Umm... by kypper · · Score: -1, Redundant
    This is not a load test, so please don't beat the crap out of it (yet!).

    You posted it on Slashdot. You were asking for it to be /.ed. Jeez....

    Next time, send it to the metamoderators or somethin ;o)

  10. Ummmm. by Nidhogg · · Score: -1, Redundant
    Well it's already /.'d. (The irony of that is just astounding yes?)

    So much for not load testing it...

  11. Load Test by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant
    If it isn't a load test, why did you post it on the front page?

    Two minutes since the article went up, and banjo seems to already be a smoking wreck from where I'm sitting.

    Maybe if you mentioned it a few times in the other articles, three comments deep, you'd get some gentle poking.

  12. ultimate irony! by VAXGeek · · Score: -1, Redundant

    what if the site gets slashdotted?

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  13. This is too funny! by farrellj · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well, I guess you got your load test...unfortunately!

    Thanx anyways for letting us have a kick at the tires!

    ttyl
    Farrell

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  14. http:///..org by halftrack · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sombody mod them down for saying slashdot got slashdotted by slashdot, it's funny once, but everybody knows it.

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  15. slashdot being slashdoted? by metalhed77 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    This is not a load test, so please don't beat the crap out of it (yet!). Slashdot being slashdotted, now that's irony.

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  16. Man, this really sucks! by tswinzig · · Score: 3, Redundant

    It's dog slow, the imported comments are misattributed, and comment searching is disabled! What were you guys thinking!?

    (Just kidding, it looks great so far.)

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  17. What's this mean? by Hallow · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Looks like regular old /. is having some problems.
    I just tried to submit a comment to this article, and this is what I got:

    Invalid form key WB0j2L6oh8 !

  18. how incestuous by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    slashdot has slashdotted slashdot.

  19. Hmm by almeida · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I looks like it got Slashdotted, anyone got a mirror?

  20. finaly by mobets · · Score: -1, Redundant

    We all knew it would happen eventualy, Slashdot finaly slashdoted itself

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  21. ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Hahahahaha Slashdot got Slashdotted!!!11!! Christ people read a few posts before you attempt to insert your painfully obvious joke.

  22. A twist of irony.. by _marshall · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Great, looks like Slashdot slashdotted itself.

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  23. Re:Not a stress test?! by zaius · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I guess what goes around comes around... slashdot has finally slashdotted itself!

  24. Oh The Irony... by Ford+Fulkerson · · Score: -1, Redundant
    Cannot Load Address
    Temporarily unable to connect: Operation timed out

    A Slashdot-site has been slashdotted!

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  25. Re:Circular... by ziplux · · Score: -1, Redundant

    How is this redundant?

  26. CORN! by poeman · · Score: 0, Redundant


    They've /.'d themselves?

  27. Post Mortem by dloolb · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Doctor: I'm sorry maam we've lost him.
    maam: Oh! Banjo we hardly knew thee.
    Doctor: I call the time of death as Friday August 03, @11:21AM
    maam: Oh Banjo!!
    Doctor: Maam, there will be other Banjo's, its time to let go, its time to pull the plug.
    YANK!!!

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  28. slashdotted! by MattBurke · · Score: -1, Redundant

    never thought i'd see slashdot slashdotted! :D

  29. Irony by 3ryon · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It looks like the site is slashdotted. Who could have forseen that?

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  30. Is this a first? by Jaeger · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Has Slashdot ever Slashdotted itself? I feel privlaged to be a piece of history.

  31. Bah bah bah... by Eric+Destiny · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Looks like we've slashdotted Slashdot.

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  32. all your... by Roadmaster · · Score: 0, Redundant


    all your banjo are belong to us.

  33. Done. by DaneelGiskard · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Yehh..we've just slashdotted slashdot! What's next on the list of eternal objectives? ;-)

  34. Re:Who peed in your coffee today? by unitron · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Moderators use "redundant" way too often, and apparently without considering that the second or third post to say a particular thing were probably written before the first post to say it showed up on the page. A lot of down moderation seems to be done more in anger and maliciousness than in a sincere attempt to improve the site.

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    I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.