Slashdot Mirror
Welcome to Slashdot 2.2
Ok, lets start with a minor vanity thing that I love. Krow set it up so you can hit unix style homepages to get fellow user info pages. Its just nicer to look at and easier to remember. I love it.
Messaging is in place. If you're logged in, hit your user preferences page and you'll see the option to configure it. You'll see notification on the homepage when you have messages. There are a variety of message types, like notification of replies to your comments, or moderations done to you. You can choose from a couple of different delivery mechanisms currently, right now email and web. Eventually we'll offer other options, but if people submit patches from CVS, "Eventually" will be sooner. Jabber is definitely planned. Inter-User messaging should happen soon too. Also note that the messaging replaces the old headline-mailer. I think you'll enjoy some of the other stuff you see there. All this messaging is the 0th child of Pudge.
Journals are a long awaited feature that people on Slashcode.com really like, so we brought it over here. Everyone contributed bits and pieces to this sucker, and its fairly complex so don't be surprised if there are some bugs. Users can enable or disable comments. Journals also features Friends Lists. This will be extended in the future, but for now you can use it to track a quick list of journals you want to scan regularly. Eventually friends will be bigger, but we'll worry about that after 2.2 settles down.
Discussions can now be created to house your own little chats without bugging us. This replaces the old hidden sids which were bugs to some, and features to others.
There are rss feeds scattered throughout the site now that will need to be documented so people can find them. The user help stuff will be updated soon.
There are several new user options for comment display. I'll let you poke around them yourself and see how they work. Some you'll like, some you won't. You'll notice that the old 'Fake Email Address' is now gone. We decided that it simply was to easy to abuse, so instead we offer auto spam proofing of your real email address. Of course this is purely optional for you paranoid spam-free types. This is Jamie's, as was the new domain linking stuff, and countless other usability features.
Meta Moderation received an overall at the maniacal hands of Cliff. Under previous versions of Slashcode, meta moderations were single autonomous events, and therefore fairly easy to manipulate by malicious users. Now M2's are tallied and when a consensus is reached, judgement is made (and karma is adjusted appropriately).
The 1% of submissions that are accepted will show up on User Info pages now. So now the 99% of you who have your submissions rejected will have something else to complain about to me an average of 15 times a day.
Forgotten passwords can be resent even if you don't remember your nickname. I can't fathom how so many people could forget their nicks, but you sure did. CowboyNeal is dancing in the streets with Mic Jagger and David Bowie knowing that he will have to respond to half as many people who can't figure out how to login. Also, plain text passwords aren't sent in emails any more, so while we're still not pretending Slashdot is secure, its more secure then it was.
A huge new deal is the fact that all the old articles have been re-imported back into the database. 2 million of them. Old discussions will continue to be closed out as they age, but users will still be able to adjust order and threshold when they view them. This was a really nasty task for Cliff since he had to import nearly 4 years of HTML back into the database... including a dozen different comment formats that evolved over that time. A huge task, but one that he managed to pull off by the deadline. And I think any users who read older stories will appreciate it.
CaptTofu fixed tons of security issues and greatly improved a lot of the security stuff that most of you will never notice. But believe me it makes dealing with bots and denial of service attacks a lot easier now (for example, if a robot is hitting us as they so often do, we can ban them without restart httpd). Tofu also had to "Manage" the team, which makes cat herding seem like a party.
We have some new hardware too. Replacing our 6 600mhz web servers are 5 shiny new dual ghz boxes. OSDNs Netops staff mercilessly beat these things into submission. Thanks to Yazz, Kurt, Toad and Trish. And also props go out to Uriah on the West Si-eed for helping with some raid bios problems that messed with our database stuff and really though us for a loop.
We also gotta thank the guys at SourceForge for having a functional bug tracking system that we (and the trolls *sigh*) could use. We love you all, and we shouldn't let little things like a language barrier stand between us. Lets both port to ML. Its like switzerland for web pages!
I also wanna thank Hemos for being our man on the inside, and Richard French, OSDN boss-man for giving us the room to put this all together.
I know I forgot to thank someone, and I apologize, but its past midnight and I've been going for 16 hours today.
Allright this is only scratching the surface. There are so many more little things that you'll notice, and either submit thinking they are bugs, or hate, or love, or whatever. But we're not fooling ourselves by thinking that we're out of the woods yet. There are still several dozen significant bugs that need fixing so we're gonna keep going. And then we have to update the FAQ with all new FAQs and corrections to the old FAQs! The real test will be when loads pick up. We expect that there will continue to be brief periods of trouble for the next couple days, but it shouldn't be significant since we did a lot of load testing, and managed to get the new setup to handle 2x Slashdot's normal peak load. We think things will be all right, but thanks to you all for having patience.
Now holy shit, I'm gonna sleep.
usang post!
FUBAR post!
You've reached your maximum number of comments you can post: 33 comments over 4 hours.
What is the meaning of this you fucks?
Hey you wanker wannabe coders fix the anon account already.
better than ever
bitch
2.2 post
speaking of 2.2, linux sucks
Ya the filters are getting pretty lame. I'm all around getting bored with slashdot. I think it's time to move on. I read it less and less. I always do that hang around some site for like a year and then get sick of it and go some other place on those coffee breaks or moments of boredom. I think i'm pretty much done with this site. It's not just all the bugs and lame filters, it's just i'm bored of all the stupid propoganda, half of the discussion is not about anything in reality. Some very non-newsworthy thing or another gets posted then some paranoid teenagers blow it out of proportion. For a while i thought this site was for professional programmers and open source developers. I realized a while ago that it's really for teenagers with no friends and college kids that are to uptight to actually go out to a kegger or something. Just dumb asses. I dont remember who said it but i think it was summed up best as "He's not gonna see that, Smart people don't actually read slashdot, dude". It still didn't lose it's charm, the childish shannigans can lighten up a rough day. But as they say "the thrill is gone". I mean when it's a battle just to get a post through, bleh, screw it.
first post! nayh nayh,
wait.. what the bloody fuck? What is this? 20,000 post? Oh no! What am I going to do ! Posting goatse.cx links was my only way to rebel against the system! WHAT! OH GOD MOMMY HELP ME.. bring back first post! please! dear lord yahweh or the highway
Yeah, thank god it is foolproof
Where do you want to go today?
ROFL..no..THAT is a FEATURE
Wtg, guys!
look, the urls are expanded
lookie here!
THATS what you think
The Slashdot Effect: A new for
hahahahahaha! As if this is going to stop anyone.
2.2 Millionth Post!!
The compression test thing actually gzips the comment and checks the size difference to see if it matches the expected compression for text. This more than anything says that the slashdot coders are idiots. This is the dumbest way I have ever heard of to do textual analysis. Maybe if Taco would bother to learn some information theory before flailing away in Perl, we might not have to deal with such stupidity.
In case you haven't been there in awhile, sCary's Shugashack no longer exists under that name. Steve wanted a more "presentable" name. It's now known as Shacknews. And he hasn't used the name sCary in like 2 years.
ffofdkg
(just testing, I'm sure the troll won't mind)
Why doesn't it show up on the comments.pl page?
Read on for an executive summary of major features [...]
"Executive summary"? Oh, no, Taco's now a tool of The Man!
Well, there's a categorical statement! I for one find them hilarious. The crapflooders are a different story.
hmm . . problem 1: Post Comment
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: One character. Hmmm. Gee, might this be a troll?
fucking idiot, you should at least try to be funny and not sound like a sarcastic shit-ass.
test
Error:
Did I get it?
--Blair
"I love a good meme joke."
I mean, it's not like Slashdot get's any elss advertising click through payments because their pageis hit on to Be There First.
Not that anything will spoil the actual _point_ of being first to post. But what do we do now for numbering prowess? First Prime? Nice round numbers?
Hmm, carriage returns in edit box now put in as line breaks. Also Lameness filer encountered " What do you want, a medal?" until I removed any reference to the 1strz in ther ful name. These lameness filer comments just show the programmers to be puerile and offensive, when they're not sarcastic rude and lame.
They didn't even try to make the [domain] feature work in the general case, did they?
Idiot Slashdot coders. Good thing we can turn the feature off; it clearly doesn't do what it was meant to do.
"it is" contracted is spelled It's
It's It's
use the apostrophe
it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's
learn to WRITE IN ENGLISH
it's it's it's it's it's it's it's
"its" is POSSESSIVE
it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's
learn to spell -- you're not a journalist, and you're not even a hack -- you're A KID WITH A COMPUTER. LEARN TO SPELL!
it's it's
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haha. the best is the 1000+ karma for AC...
yes
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