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Help Test Exciting All-New Slashdot "Banjo"
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 ;))
It says my Karma's 64! I like it.
Slashdot is Slashdotted by Slash-users from Slashdot...
Nobox: Only simple products.
And here I thought that every URL passed to Slashdot was begging for a stress test!
-- bartman
I don't know what you consider a load test, but I think posting a site on Slashdot is about the best load test you can get!
I had a brilliant idea, in wake of the /.ing of Banjo. Could you consider adding a way to randomly send a message to registered users, similar to the random way you're picked for moderating and what not. It could be text at the top like the moderating text with a link to Banjo. It could be a pop-up, although I don't think that would go over well. It could possibly be a small graphic in a sidebar too. Having the ability to control how many users get to see it overall as well as deciding it the user must be logged in or AC would be excellent as well. A feature like that could quite possibly help with things such as beta testing new /. code. My $.02 worth of ideas for the day.
It says I have too many teeth to play a banjo, whatever could that mean?
DanH
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UNIX - Not just for Vestal Virgins anymore
MSerpent: Psst.... Go Ahead, Taco will never know, just a couple af hits will never make a difference....
user DamAntEEV: Just one Bite, he;ll never know... /. my Tree Of Banjo! get ye East Of Slashdot the the Land Of No Karma!
SlashGod: Gotcha! trying to
Can we now say that banjo got "banjoed"?
Skiers and Riders -- http://www.snowjournal.com
Looks like slashcode.com uses the new version. I could be wrong, though it seems to have something called "Journals". Okay, i'm off to go check it out, before people read my comment and /. slashcode.com too.
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And here I thought that every URL passed to Slashdot was begging for a stress test!
/. population is showing all these sissy worms how to really bring down internet sites.
agreed. the
"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." - Jack Nicholson
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.)
"And like that
Dueling Banjos!!!
(Hmm. New Slashcode? Could Slashdot *get* any better??)
Good mfences make good neighbors.
it doesnt go
Ok. I have only played around for a while, but please try to fix this for the next version.
And thanks again for the great work!
(wink wink)
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 :)
You can't grep a dead tree.
Apparently, because it doesn't work for me. Yep. Seems Slashdot Slashdotted itself. :) It times out which probably means it crashed and burned.
:)
Not surprising really given that it's not running without the full hardware, is known to be slow, and is brand new code Taco hasn't really tested out yet.
o/~ Oh, Susanna, don't you cry for me o/~
My journal has hot
To recall an old cartoon series: Banjo got El Cabonged!
Close the world, open the NeXT
Yeah! Now we can have a Mozilla-native sidebar panel rather than having to go through some kind of gateway RSS->RDF. This will be a big win. I'll have to code one now as an example...
BTW, RSS1.0 is RDF, not pseudo-RDF like some of the other RDF versions. There's info on dmoz.org, but I'm lazy. Find it yourself.
marotti.com
PING banjo.slashdot.org (64.28.67.73) from ###.###.###.### : 56(84) bytes of data.
--- banjo.slashdot.org ping statistics ---
20 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
It's called bandwidth and clustered servers!! Check out the hardware section of the FAQ.
C and DB2 instead of Perl and MySQL! And hire back some of the C coders VA got rid of.
*Shameless Attempt to get Cushy Telecommuting Job Back*
[Insert gasp of astonishment here]
Top Ten List of New Features Slashcode Needs:
10. Spellign Corection
9. (-1) Stupid moderation points, tell 'em how ya feel about that.
8. Variations on Anonymous Coward (i.e. Agronimous Cowherd, Aeronimous Tylerd, Nealanimous Cowberd)
7. Built in Wasabi dispenser
6. Tag matching (i.e. Missing </b>
%Parentheses mismatch in program SLASHCODE.BAS at line 34110
5. Rate authors (Of course, this would probably only lead to more Katz abuse...)
4. (+1) Topic save moderation points (only awarded to last message in thread if it brings it back to main topic)
3. Imagine a beowulf cluster of David Lettermans
2. Missile Defense Shield
1. Pop-under ads for goatse.cx
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Yehh..we've just slashdotted slashdot! What's next on the list of eternal objectives? ;-)
The link is on the frontpage(tm) of Slashdot! How could it not get the crap kicked out of it???
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....
Mooniacs for iOS and Android
Here's how a cut and paste from the on-screen version of his comment looks.
Dear Lord Man!
By the way, AC, it took me a moment to get it, but I laughed out loud when I did.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
While I respect the Slashdot team for continuing development on the Slashcode and adding new features to it, wouldn't it be more prudent to work on what you've got until it's stable and fast before adding new 'features?'
Right now, Slashdot is slow-loading (from a 1.5mbps, multi-backboned connection), produces half of a webpage (everything down to the sections bar), and only responds to about half of my HTTP GET requests.
Anyway, just my worthless $0.02..
Do you like German cars?
Feature creep. Is there really a need for user messaging and crap like that?
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Slashdot: News For Zealots. Stuff That's Hypocritical.
Will that replace slashdotted in geekspeak? only time will tell.
Seems to be another new feature of the new /. - it uses a journal filing system rather than a journaling file system. ;)
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I have no idea where the extra 38 karma points came from though.
My only political goal is to see to it that no political party achieves its goals.
In light mode, the text of each article in the main page just extends horizontally as far as it goes all on one line. I have to use the horizontal scroll bar just to read it. The bug here is that the <NOBR> tag for the menu row is not properly closed. The slash is missing in the closing </NOBR> tag.
BTW, a <NOBR> tag is a bad idea for that menu for light mode, as it will cause horizontal scrolling for itself.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
You're a moderator with 4 points (expire after 2001-07-20).
Sweet! One of those "cool surprises" must be a time machine!
If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
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You've reached the maximum number of times you can access users.pl: 123 accesses over 4 hours.
I waited 2 minutes (maybe it's doing some werid average calculation), and I got that error again (the number of accesses changed to 144, then 148, etc).
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Stay tuned for some shock and awe coming right up after this messages!
I've posted 273 comments on slashdot. That's humbling. So why can I only see the last 24?
It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
Could we please finally get a user's comment history to include all the comments that the user has posted? Personally, I'd also like an option to make that public info or have it to myself (where the public version would be "the last few weeks" or "the last 10")
Just having "the last 24 comments" sucks - I like to see what I've posted over the last year or two (or even ever since I started).
It shouldn't be too difficult, seeing as you've already done it for the story pipeline...
You should never take life too seriously - You'll never get out of it alive.
How about providing us with a change list Rob? Tell us what features to poke at, so we know where to look. Even if it's just s "new features are listed at www.slashcode.com/foovar".
www.eFax.com are spammers
Whew. I've spent too much time on this. Over the past few hours, I have recorded at least 10 bugs in the new code. Some of it is minor display stuff. Others deal with serious things like the complete mistreatment of A HREF and /A.
The area of the new Slash code with the greatest number of bugs in the Journals. But that is a completely new feature, so I won't entirely bitch.
And someone just hosed the page numbering code so where you've got pages 0 and 1 on an article (which don't link to the next page). You have to manually modify the "startat" in the URL to get to page #2.
I wouldn't say that it was ready for a public beta. If the Slash people thought it was, they need a team of good testers to poke holes in this stuff. Lotsa flaws.
Oh... BTW, things like TROLLTALK and all are gone! But oddly enough, you can still create your own personal SID forum, with a Slash generated number, by using one of the special pages.
Lots of interesting changes, though.