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Themes.org Reborn at Freshmeat
GSpot writes: "While doing my weekly surf to see if there has been any change in one of my favorite websites, themes.org is being redirected to themes.freshmeat.net and seemingly has been reborn yet again. The previous incarnation had a dreadful interface that was difficult to navigate and when it worked it was painfully sssssllllllooooowwwww. The current version is upon a first impression a much more pleasant experience. I plan on visiting often." Mirotrem points out this brief history of themes.org running on the site (written by Chris D.), detailing the moves the site has made to this point. (Freshmeat, Themes.org, and Slashdot are all part of the world-controlling conspiracy under the VA Software umbrella better known as the Sinister Andover Keiretsu.)
Self-serving story and self-serving poll both on the front page. Although this may be "News for Nerds," I would rather not have Themes.org overkill. Then again, maybe its a slow day.
What the hell was wrong with the old themes.org, not the previous one(what a disaster), but the one before? It was beautiful, each section had it's own theme(fitting, being a theme site), and in each section there were sub-categories, adult, people, anime, games, etc.. Now it's had two overhauls and has gained absolutely nothing from this. And where is the X resources section? Backgrounds, icons, tiles etc.? I'm just very sad, themes.org used to be an excellent site, the best themes site ever. Now it's just... blah. ;-(
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
People keep complaining "i want the older design back".. some people like the new one. I think it's kind of pretty, but i miss the sorted "sections" (anime scifi etc)
Why can't they just offer both? Both the new design and the old design, i mean. If you have a properly abstract database system, which i assume these people do, it should be relatively easy to do. Hell, this is being done by the Blockstackers people, go find Nate and have him explain how he did the themeing in the Everything2.com web engine. His system is clever, abstract, and doesn't hurt your functionality at all. Shouldn't one of the main advantages of database-backed websites be that you can offer a range of options of frontends to the same content to your viewers?
Can't we just have themes for themes.org?
What's the big fight over?
Does /. EVER get news as it breaks? This is like a week old.
How about carrying themes for Apple's Mac OS X? Expanding the platform reach is never a bad thing...
2002-04-16 03:42:18 themes.freshmeat.net (articles,news) (rejected)
I submited this news a few weeks ago, but I guess I was too quick on the gun.
The new site is way way way way way way better though. Good job!
The above is not worth reading.
am glad they finally did something with the garbage heap that t.o had become. I remember back in the day when t.o was a very neat place with some talented people running the show. Then they turned into something really, really, bad....(worse than the OLD fat, dieing on the toilet Elvis). Freshmeat has always been cool --- thanks to the Freshmeat team. And to the people that let t.o die in the first place --- what rock are you all under? The aquisition by OSDN should have made you better -- not killed you. But at least it probably sold a few panner ads for the rubbernecks that would drive by to look at the carnage.
(+1 Funny) only if I laugh out loud.
Yet after some time, it was no longer a secret that only one person - the "reviewer" - set the marble rating according to his or her taste. The reviewer who constantly rated my themes didn't like my style (as it differed quite a bit from his design), so I didn't have any chance to get more than 4, at maximum 6 out of 10 marbles. Other submissions which more or less imitated a reviewer's style got 8, 9 or even 10 marbles even if they were at most average or a remake of a former theme.
Very soon the number of daily submissions decreased significantly, and many people complained about the unfair rating system. I made a few more themes even before themes.org became unusable but refused to submit them before the reviewing system gets redesigned.
To the Slashcode people:
I've always wondered this, so I'm just going to ask. Why is that box there? Does it really serve a purpose to repeat links directly to the right of the story? Perhaps this is just a Tacoism that was never taken out back and shot?
If the box has to stay there, could we use the anchor tag's title attribute for the text instead of the contents of the link? At least that way, decently marked-up articles can put the box to good use.
Just curious, not trolling. I'm waaay over the cap, so <moonites>moderating... is useless</moonites>.
> Freshmeat, Themes.org, and Slashdot are all part of the world-controlling conspiracy under the VA Software umbrella
I know this was said in jest but it kinda struck me. For news, themes, and software these are three fantastic sites. I know we all lamented when /. fell under the control of a corporation but altogether things have worked out quite well. Although /. can't be said to be identical to when it was privately owned, it sure hasn't been forced to make too many concessions. I think the staff at Slashdot, Freshmeat, Themes.org, and even VA Software deserve an honest "thank-you". Sappy I know, but well-earned.
Damn, you are one arrogant bitch!
Nice stuff tho.
So true. After two years of lameness, delays, and just plain mismanagement t.o. doesn't deserve our respect or our patronage.
What irks me is the year it took to get a suck-ass, painfully slow replacement online and then they put the original one back online anyway at classic.themes.org. WTF? Why didn't you do that like a year ago? So it's got some security issues - just fix them and get it back online.
When you set yourself up as *THE* place for anything in the OpenSource community you are making a commitment to the community that should not be taken lightly. You have a responsibility to either honour your agreement, or pass it off to someone who will.
The managers of t.o. did neither and should be ashamed of themselves for taking so long. What's worse is that the person responsible (Chris DiBona) has never taken responsibility for the mess or even appologized, just offered 'sometime real soon now' platitudes and lame excuses.
One of the coments on themes.freshmeat.net was <paraphrase>So why the hell didn't you do this a year and half ago?</paraphrase>. I couldn't agree more.
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Now, I'm not trying to look a gift horse in the mouth, but is the sarcasm really necessary? It is common practice for journalists to acknowledge up front any potential conflicts of interest, just so that the reader is on the right page. Slashdot readers were right to point this out, and whining about it is frankly not appropriate. You do claim to be real journalists every now and again, so let's stop acting like we're in kindergarten, hm?
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