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Slashdot Design Changes for Wider Appeal
Our marketing department has done extensive research over
the last 3 quarters and discovered that our audience is strangely disproportionately
skewed towards males. Like, 98.3% males to be precise. To correct this
oversight, we have decided to subtly tweak Slashdot's design and content
to widen our appeal to these less active demographics. Don't worry! We'll still
continue to serve our core audience, but we hope you'll work with us as
we try to find a balance that will work for all.
I can definitely feel myself getting in touch with my inner....oh, never mind...
http://www.busyweather.com/
From tomorrow? Is it April fools anywhere in the world yet?
Karma: Incomprehensible (Mostly affected by posting at +5, reading at -1, and metamoderating everything unfair.)
You guys are totally invited to my sleepover.
We're gonna talk about servers, and soldering irons, and building your own computer, and cameraphones, and open source software, and
OH! oh oh oh!
I heard that Linus and Richard might try to sneak in! They're sooooo cute! *SQueaL!*
*giggle*
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
but im gonna play with my Ken N Barbie dolls instead, i cant wait till action man turns up
It's working already! We've been Flickr'd! Time for Slashdot to expereince the Flickr Effect first-hand!
HELL, YEAH, but only briefly before I scraped my eyes out of my skull with my fingernails.
Simon
Physicists get Hadrons!
My eyes! Zee goggles zey do nothing!
If an officer ever threatens to taze you, say you have a pacemaker.
If they are 98.3% skewed towards males, where is all the front page pr0n?
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
I LOVE IT!!!1!1!!!!eleven!!1!
You're a day early, guys. When feminists attack, next on Slashdot.
April Fools.
Haha.
Now PUT IT BACK.
My eyes are bleeding already...
Unbearable and almost unreadable.
Ze goggles, zhey do NOTHING!
I [may] disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
As strange as it feels looking at this, it still is better looking than the IT color scheme... ;)
Shawn's Tech Articles
I hope you're selling matching panties.
Take the Dragon Survey
very not cool, good thing i have the slashdotter extension
Time to load up lynx (sorry Firefox :( ). April Fool that!
F' the other 1.7%
-Rick
"Most people in the U.S. wouldn't know they live in a tyrannical state if it walked up and grabbed their junk." - MyFirs
I think I like the pink more than I like the horrible purple color in the Games section.
... and here come the April Fool's tricks. This is so predOMG! Ponies!!!
...this year's sampling of asinine non-jokes, made-up stories, and time wasters.
... gosh, you got me twice already.
I see we've actually begun several hours before April 1 this year
Breakfast served all day!
Here's soem little ponies for you lot,
Isnt this a day early? Someone needs to get a proper calender!
Sir, I believe you are four and a half hours early, even for the time zone you live in. Although it is indeed past midnight over in England, as you yourself said repeatedly, this is an *American* forum.
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
Thank you so much for the redesign. That old green was sure ugly!
Pink is like, the new, uh, pink!
I 3 pink!
Now, where are these ponies!!! Give me ponies. Now.
Hey, April Fools day isn't until tomorrow.
I love ponies. Do you love ponies too?
Huh. I suddenly have this urge to collect all the Slashdot Dream-House Playsets, each sold separately.
The opinions stated herein do not necessarily represent those of anybody at all. Deal with it.
Oh come on. This isn't even trying for 4/1.
Wow. Everything is pink except for the little area where the reply button is. I guess CowboyNeal really did let his girlfriend redesign the website.
Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
In other news, Blizzard has announced the Alliance race for their WOW expansion pack, the wisps.
I think I need to upgrade from this grayscale monitor.
Don't lead me into temptation... I can find it myself.
And still 5 hours to go...
Its 4:30 in the afternoon on the 31st. Whats with OSTG going early with the April Fools? They have my timezone on file... Oh well. suppose I can put up with the pink for two days instead of one.
=P
Somewhere it's already eno lirpa.
The lengths a guy will go to to get laid... It's still not going to work. Ow my eyes!!!
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Clint Eastwoods orangutang was funnier. Get over yourself.
Wouldn't you also have to include *content* that those on the other side of the fence might find interesting?
Let's all hope this is an early April Fool's joke ...
Would the homosexual developers please line up in front of the firing squad....
"And so it begins"
Also
"The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
I was more amused when there was no official explanation and we were all going "WTF WTF!". I mean with no explanation some of us were forming complex theories involving girls raised to be hackers by their evil masters, barbie, who have trained to seek out and destroy geek culture starting with slashdot.
Philosophy.
Yep, it's April Fools again. And here I thought that the Saturday date would mean that I'd miss Slashdot's bad humor this year.
Thanks Taco. (Like, totally not. Fur sure.)
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
I can't wait for them to publish the other extreme with the "OMG!!! Titties!" theme.
After calming me down with some orange slices and some fetal spooning, E.T. revealed to me his singular purpose.
Storm
I love ponies too! Pink is the new Yellow!
I love the new layout.. Fits perfectly with everything.. :) :D
It's April Fools already if your clock is set to GMT
If bad puns were like deli meat, this would be the wurst
Oooooh, Chesus Chriiiist, finally a website that understands me!
/whisper/ Thanks for the candy!
Ok This was a bit of a shock to turn to. Thought process was a little slow, starting somewhere around, who defaced slashdot and ending with ahhhhhh.
If you guys are lusting after some hot ass sex, why didn't you just say so. I'm sure there are plenty of people on here willing ot oblige.
~/ssh slashdot.org ssh: connect to host slashdot.org port 22: too many beers
Why don't we have a separate section for bubble-gum snapping Britney Spears stories... just for good measure.
Slashdot is sooooo totally gay.
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
/me loads digg.com
The more you know, the less you understand.
Posting so I don't accidentially mod anything in this thread...
Kudos to the editors! I dig silly krap like this.
"He's lost in a 'floyd hole"
I mean, I fullheartedly welcome to move to attract more women to the site but that color scheme has just got to go man...
I don't get it.
Little early, are we? :)
Indeed, a few Slashdot sections do inflict greater pain than the Ponies scheme.
Lurking at the bottom of the gravity well, getting old
At first I thought my computer had reverted to XPs Fisher Price look on me (I usually keep it set to classic), but then I realized I'm running gentoo at the moment... and that even XP doesn't like ponies.
Isn't this just fantastic.
I thought the same thing. It's early for April fools. I also agree... My Eyes! My Eyes! :)
... April Fool's? Of course, I happen to love a good pony steak every once in a while, especially with A1...
I think it's just *super*!
OMG guys, this is so totally like OMG wow PINK!!!
:P April fools? I certainly hope so...
Gag me with a spork fellas. Pink is such a gross colour
Us girls need to stick together! Pink is so totally last year...
see sig. see sig run. run sig run.
It must be the announcement that Slashdot has been bought up Rupert Murdoch. After all, why does Slashdot suddenly resemble Myspace?
Uggh...now Slashdot looks like someone poured Pepto Bismol (c) all over it.
It hurts.
So does that mean we'll get laid?
I thought I was having a stroke. Thanks for clearing that up.
Pax Vobiscum
so slasdot's designer finally desided to come out of the closet, it's about time :P
Like Linus Torvalds is so cute. I wonder if he wears boxen or briefs?
This is my sig. There are many like it but this one is mine.
SUPPORT: Y, is my myspace login account not workiung????? Plz help..
I have a great idea for an April Fool's joke. I think Alabama should send out a press release that says they have developed a Nuclear Warhead and will use it to defend themselves from Tennessee at all costs.
Comment forecast: Bits of genius surrounded by a sea of mediocrity.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/31/forget_me_ not_panties/ Typing in slashdot panties takes me to a URL from last year's April Fools that originated from Slashdot.
Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
/. has a worldwide readership, and so the Aprilfoolery has begun at the closest thing to a common time we have. If they'd reall ywanted to be anal, they could have started 12 hours ago, when the International Date line hit 4/1.
You are not the customer.
-Rustina
-giggles!-
Data is the lever, rigor the fulcrum, brains the force that drives it all.
All they did was up the gamma setting on the games scheme...
If bad puns were like deli meat, this would be the wurst
OMG PONIES?! Where!?!?!1!
*screams like an 13 year old girl near Justin Timberlake*
Chums up, let's do this!
And I'm a straight guy. Damn steriotypes.
And I agree with others who say that this style should replace the IT style. Maybe the hearts are too much, though.
Simon's Rock College
I was JUST sitting here bitching to a co-worker about he lack of support for pink/pony loving men in the geek world. Cudos slashdot, once again, you're on the leading edge of proving geeks with what they need!! GO PINK!!!
Just yesterday, I was telling my girlfriend to read Slashdot and she refused saying she hated the current layout (even though SHE LOVES the content). I guess this was just the final touch required. I can already feel the number of females reading this site go up!!
Gabe and Tycho would be proud. Especially Gabe.
I love ponyz 2! The site looks totally kewl! LOL OMG, /. rulz! I luv it!
I'm not fat, just big boned...
So, now we'll have a site full of 30 year old male geeks who have never been on a date, and 13 year old girls. I forsee a period of thousands of "hookups" being made, followed by herds of Feds swarming Ann Arbor shortly thereafter.
...
So...
ASL?
jX [ Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. - Einstein ]
My eyes! The goggles do nothing!
I am really diging the hot pink colors! :) This put quite the smile on my face. Now to explain to my co-irkers why I am laughing at a webpage.
-Battyone UDGNET
Aww hell, someone set us up the ponies!
You couldn't even wait until midnight GMT, could you?
April 1 is quickly becoming my least favorite day because almost everyone with a website tries to make up for a scarcity of subtle cleverness with an extreme overabundance of in-your-face April 1 foolery.
It's not supposed to be the case that readers should sift through the obvious "jokes" to find the occasional valid story. To the contrary, it should be a regular news day with a subtle prank THAT COULD PLAUSIBLY BE TRUE. The goal is to convince at least one rube to make some panicked post to the tune of THAT'S HORRIBLE, WHY IS THIS HAPPENING.
A much funnier prank than OMG PONIES might have been some incredibly obnoxious EULA that must be clicked to read a story, with some claim that the Eolas patent is forcing you to take these measures.
As if someone tagged this "aprilfools". I mean, it didn't take long to work out what's going on, but why suck all the fun out of it almost immediately?
My eyes! Oh God, it burns! The glasses, they do nothing!
Thankfully slashdotter was released. It does a good job of mitigating the pinkness. I've switched to Politics as my view and it overwrites the pink just fine.
Do need to file a bug report though, it doesn't handle the headings on the left hand menu.
So, it's 4:30pm local, been fighting with an Exchange issue all day. Get a few moments and click on the Slashdot link on my tool bar.
fuck me!
Wasn't expecting that. Bloody April Fools, thank god it's on a weekend this year.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Laziness is the father.
I'd feel better if it weren't Friday night.
I'm gonna have to start dotting my eye with a heart! Hee!
I'm not a geek, I'm just a clever script.
I think the new styles aren't a problem. I mean, who cares about color aesthetics, etc, when the underlying functionality is exactly the same.
Actually, make the links a different color 'cause pink is too hard to read, but other than that, good work!
Register the editry.
I'm sorry, I was distracted.
No, it's ok, I think I'll remain seated if you don't mind, ma'am.
-- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
I really hope the pink color scheme is part of an early April Fools joke.
Clearly subtlety is the key here!
My sig is too lon
Tequila will do that to ya. Believe me. I know.
What?
Hahaha, I just arrived at /. thinking "Hey, it's been April Fool's Day here for an hour and a half, maybe there'll be some of the usual shenanigans already", and yet I still did a double take at this. Nice work guys (and girls?!).
So, I think you should add a couple of unicorns. Mad science! Robots! Underwear! Cute girls! Full comic online! http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/
--
Mad science! Robots! Underwear! Cute girls! Full comic online! http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/
People have been whining for years that Slashdot should redesign their home page. After seeing THIS, however, I think that a lot of people will know to keep their mouths shut rather than face the evil wrath of Slashdot's "alternative" design team again :)
Well, since you've now got marketing research, they will most certainly tell you that by far the largest segment of the population consists of people who read their native language at or below a 9th grade level. And particularly in the USA, these peepull cant spell, eethur. So perhaps, in search of a wide demographic, you should simply take a clue from the tabloids, forget this geek stuff, forget being a source of information, and start having articles about who Brad Pitt is currently.. uh.. dating, and whether or not Tom Cruise is gay.
Don't take life too seriously; it isn't permanent.
IMM GLAD U 2K CONSIEDRATION OF DA FAMAEL SLASHDOT REAEDRS
I11!111 LOL FOR ONA WELCOM3 OUR FAMIEN OVERLOARDS1111!!!! OMG WTF LOL
Oh MY GOD!!! This is like so tottally Awesome. Like I dont what you guys think but like im tottally into this like you have no Idea. I was like here at work and like I went to slashdot and like the whole site had like changed.
Slashdot marketing has been watching too much Teletubbies.
This got dugg ten minutes before this story was posted.
Crazy.
I [may] disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
But you'd better be prepared for a plagiarism claim from this girl.
you had me at #!
you, apparently (have come out of the closet)
I'm glad that Slashdot decided to trot out this new design. People weren't sitting so high in the saddle about the old one. This will spur us on to great new stories (without duplicates). Taco has really taken the reins with this.
"Oh! Oh! Oh! I can take ugly but that's "circus ugly". Oh God, I can't see! Who opened the Ark of the Covenant?!" - paraphrased from Peter Griffin
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity but they've always worked for me" - HST
Please
Please
Please
chose a more gender-neutral color
my breasts have run away in terror
(it's true, this reader doesn't have a Y chromosome)
When did this go live? Midnight GMT?
Vote for Pedro!
what?
OMG, they do not have this color scheme in russia, thank you slashdot for letting me see it
I always thought that Slashdot and myspace should get together sometime. Here's their bastard lovechild.
Golly! Is this porn?? Is this it?? I am getting a hard on from this new interface... your marketing folks are doing a great job.
Hey you fucktards, you forgot to post a link! How else am I supposed to use the Related Links section to find a good deal on a pony?
This guy's the limit!
Looks like My Little Pony vomited all over the site. Was that the effect you were going for? My Little Pony after a kegger?
Comment removed based on user account deletion
The light. It burns. The goggles, it is as if they do nothing.
The pain. Can't see.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Are males and females not equal? My theory is this: males and females have the same abilities, but different desires. Since they do not want the same, they apply their energies differently.
Holy Jeez this is bad. I feel like I should be worried about Breast Cancer or get a pink ribbon or share my feelings.. On second thought, I only welcome our new feminine overlords if they are very hot and we agree on a better, err.. more asthetically pleasing color scheme.
It is still March.
The first person to say pink's a great color gets smacked seven ways from here to Saturday and mocked.
Keep your eyes to the sky.
my eyes are attempting to stab themselves out.
Oh man, you guys totally got me. That was a good one.
Did you know that April Fool's jokes are:
1. Lame
2. Supposed to actually fool you into thinking they're real for a split second.
The quote on the bottom of the page is 'normal'... if you're going to put 3OMG!!! Ponies!!!3 in the top and make it pink you need to reinvent those quotes :-)
APRIL FOOL'S IS TOMORROW!
put it under your "Sections" column, why dont you ....
Please, please, please get back to the usual green. I know it's 2006-04-01, but it doesn't prevent my eyes from bleeding. /me prays to /.'s divinities.
I sense much beer in you. Beer leads to intoxication, intoxication leads to hangover. Hangover leads to sobering.
There are probably a few exceptions, but the most rough, bitchy, goth girls I have ever met even swarmed to a pony to pet it....... Well researched....
In undeveloped countries, the consumer controls the market. In capitalist America, the market controls you.
Isn't this the Sony PSP's default color scheme for the month of April?? ;)
It looks like april fools started early this year. If we are lucky it will turn into a month long event like christmas has.
Story comments aren't skinned in the same fashion as the left-hand sidebar.
Taco, if you're going to try to appeal to a new demographic, at least do it right eh?
Reinvent the wheel only at either a lower cost, greater effectiveness, or your own personal enrichment and satisfaction.
They say pink is the new green this season!!
> Our marketing department has done extensive research
s/research/drugs/
KILL IT WITH FIRE!
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has announced an investigation of the notorious hacker web community known as SlashDot. Devoted to denial of service attach, the site is now attempting to entice underage girls to learn. We can't have little girls exposed being exposed to knowledge and critical, this will interfering with traditional family values the government offical was quoted as saying. Process servers are cruising Taco Bells around the country searching for the site mastermind known as CDR Taco.
The staff of Slashdot is a great crew, look at all the fine things they do for their reade... oh I can't take it any more... IT BURNS... IT BUUUURRRRNNNNSSSS!!!!! mom: That's because your wicked......
So many commments, and yet not a single one is modded as insightful or interesting. You know it's April Fools Day.
im not gay! this is totally homo and it if it doesn't go back to the same old thing or something nicer, i might have to just make a personal hack and change the colors my self (no offence ment to the wonderful gay community)
OMG I love pones 2 some1 plzplzPLZ msg me n we will talk abt ponies all nite!!!!1
i LUV the new slashdot!!!!
This is a sig. Deal with it.
"It has begun!"
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
it looks fabulous dear!
Now I just need to get out my reading glasses so I can see that white text on the light pink margin or pink text on that white margin..
Only 'flamers' flame!
Does slashdot hate my posts?
From Tom Lehrer's "Who's Next"
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
...obligatory reference.
approprate [sic] hardware to run it on? a mac, obviously
There's not enough PURPLE ;p
pwnies?
"You encounter a syphilitic orc. Roll to defend yourself."
Isn't it just a tad early to make the change? At least according to my time zone.
The very best it would do is attract good women who like geeks. In which case the slashdot users having sex stats will go up, and the content will subsequently go down.
This will then lead to the "Slashdot OMFG FREE DATING FOR U!!!11!!11!!" theme in order to bring in geeks who are not having constant hot sexual encounters.
YouStockIt - Education through Unorthodox Methods
My breast is swelling with delight for the new look. I can't wait to buy a Hello Kitty monitor to go with my fabulous new home page. You guys are the best. I'm so happy I just can't stop bouncing up and down over and over again in my bedroom. ^_~
...Now ./ is a porn site.
Cool.
+1 Erotic
I am from a small, grease-loving country in the north called Ca-na-da.
Needs more "Hello Kitty."
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
The new tagging kind of takes the fun out of it.
This may be a good thing, most of the site has become compleatly illegible.
I beleive "loving ponies" is still a crime in all 50 states... better make sure you don't get caught!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
You need to go for flowers and birds and cute little animals with great, big, dark, soulful eyes. And ponies.
Or go the route of Fedora Core 5. Very bubbly and cute! I was just waiting for the ponies while it installed.
Bibo Ergo Sum.
Install PrefBar in your Mozilla/SeaMonkey/Firefox. Then disable colors and go to /. or refresh the home page. :) Or just use any text Web browsers!
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
"What the fuck!?"
My second thought
"Oh fuck, April 1st."
(Any chance of just having one or two "jokes" this year guys?)
It's official. Most of you are morons.
I forgot what tomorrow's date was until I saw slashdot. My first reaction was "WTF!?" and my second reaction was "Oh yeah, it's THAT day."
Nice one, but may I recommend next year you do something like:
* Slashdot purchased by Microsoft
* Slashdot to become a part of MySpace
* Slashdot renamed to "Colon Slashdot" to call attention to the importance of routine prostrate exams.
now put it back, i can't read this shit.
Has slashdot been owned? I actually adjusted my monitor to avoid the pain!
Pink... the colour of spam. Brace yourselves!
The toad can't burp - and for some reason can't fart either, so it swells up and eventually explodes. --Anonymous Coward
I think there's nothing else to say.
You should be using CRYSTAL PRINCESS PONIES.
Geez, didn't you guys do ANY research?
That PINK is the new BLACK
+(norad) if you rearrange the letters in mother in law, you get woman hitler
I mean, like, who needs ponies when you can create an Earth-Shattering Boom?
Obligatory Link to Earth-Shattering Boom Story
Tag lost or not installed.
The goggles do nothing!!
Your parents put it together.
I am using Lynx/Links/ELinks, you doinks.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Slashdot, news for girlies... ?
As a visualy impared person, this is an eye killer!
Penguins: good mascot, better burger.
The goggles! They do nothing!!
You changed the color scheme way before you put in this story. In order for a joke to be good all the elements of it must arrive more or less at the same time.
Now we knew the scheme was changed, we knew it was part of an April fools joke, and by the time the actual story came it was just not as funny as it could have been.
But I have to admit it was much funnier than Slashdot's previous attempts of April 1st humor.
Finally a web site that matches my underwear.
Full Tilt
As one of the few females on slashdot I must say that I f*%$ing HATE the color pink and I imagine some other female slashdotters feel the same way so if you don't want to lose the few 1.7% of us you have, SWITCH IT BACK.
Blech.
- tokengeekgrrl
...but I didn't really laugh till I saw this:
[+] gay, aprilfools, ponies, pink, lol (tagging beta)
Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday March 31, @07:24PM
Wait, if we're geeked out enough to use GMT to decide when April 1 starts, why aren't we geeked out enough to use it in the posting timestamps? Are we turning into a bunch of girls?
It's tommorow in Europe? Can someone over there send me some stock pricea?
Interestingly they're all the same as yesterday.
Sparks, please. Saying "mad scientist" in public is just asking to be turned into a smoking pile of ash&^@#sdfd(*#4rgi8gty4cgjfsg :DISCONNECT:
the reason why /. was converted to CSS!
Creative misinterpretation is your friend.
i propose that "OMG!!! Ponies!!!" become the new
tag line year round.
I understand what the day is, and i can definitely do without the current color scheme, but the line has great potential.
An incongruous tagline is exactly what a nerd site needs. It would also make for a random inside joke of sorts and would confound the mainstream media whenever it refers to slashdot. Maybe it would also remind some not to take themselves quite so seriously.
...and colors are terrible. April Fools? Bad day to start a new job, me thinks....
but I kinda like the look.
Well, minus the ponies of course...but the pink actually works well.
Appended to the end of comments you post. 120 chars.
It has officially begun. April 1st has hit in some timezone that the editors were paying attention to. For the next 24 hours slashdot is completely worthless.
my sig's at the bottom of the page.
not that she reads slashdot to begin with, but she just informed me that this is the most offensive color scheme that she's even seen - and sympathises with me for having to look at it for what I can only assume is the next 24hrs.
Woo hoo!
Supposedly not Washington :P Google around and you should find it from a few months ago... some guy went to a ranch out there that specialized in catering to that crowd, and after the police investigation into his death found that nothing was out of the ordinary :P
Like, GROSS!!!!
but it also shows what computer-savvy males think of 'what women are all about'. Yikes.
I'll tolerate anything except intolerance.
Come on, CowboyNeal, it's a dead give away.
"I wish I knew how to quit you!"
Distributed proteome folding @ WorldCommunityGrid.org
Team Slashdot - Members:#1 Run Time:#1 Points:#1 Results:#1
You much keep it pink! IT ROCKS! It is giving us girls what we deserve. Which is additional happiness as we read all the guys point of views, all 98.3% of then! KEEP IT PINK! KEEP IT PINK!! KEEP IT PINK!!!
-- "I have something stupid and ridiculous to tell you." Alfred de Musset, 1833
It is necessary that this style stays available, even though it's not normally active. Then the Slashdotter extension needs to get it as an option. This needs to stay for the sheer WTF value when you switch the style to pink. Especially when you do it with (or rather to?) someone else's Fx profile.
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
Someone call the carebears quick!
We're all pink on the inside
...when /. becomes completely useless for 24 hours. Sure, you're laughing now, but by midday tomorrow, when you've read 20 stories along the lines of "Microsoft headquarters explodes, Linus given Nobel prize, and...um...aliens abduct Sony chairman. Oh, yeah, and buy stuff from ThinkGeek!!!!111" you'll be longing for April 2nd to arrive.
If you can read this sig, you're too close.
Really.
...where is all the front page pr0n?
Ok boys, he asked for it. Let him have a little taste of the ol' Goatse.cx.....
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
Here I thought Slashdot couldn't get any fucking uglier. Goes to show, you can ALWAYS be wrong.
Ah, April 1st, when all of the Retarditarians come out. I'd rather listen to mormons prosletyze than deal with the base subhuman jackassery of April Fool's day on the internet.
Just when I thought /. couldn't get any uglier...
Speaking as a female.... ugg the green and the pink classhiiiing
Oh c'mon! you could have at least changed the font to something like "script" and put little pink happy faces and hearts as a background! :P
I'm sure the advertisers will love this.
A bit early for April Fools, don'tcha think, Taco-chan? Anime will fuck your head up like that, ya know?
It's a very dark ride.
3 OMG!!! Ponies!!! 3
You call this an april fools joke? Lets see something funny like last year. Lets have have google buy mozilla again!
After many years of watching Slashdot, once the home of stuff that did, indeed, matter to nerds, slipping day by day nearer to complete irrelevance, it's heartening to see the owners trying out a look that better matches the core of their current focus on games and Entertainment. Sadly, I predict they won't have the balls to stick with it for any length of time - 24 hours, tops.
This made my day. Thanks, ladies. :)
In exactly the same way that Michael Jackson feels like a kid again!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Or is that for brokeback.org?
Some bastard hacked into my slashdot account and changed the settings. ROFL..nice one guys
Lord, that's painful to look at! Nice one! But wherz the ponies?
I saw on south park San Francisco was totally wiped out.
Oracle and unix guy.
just.. i cant define it...
i feel like something special is here..
u feel guys?
its everything so... pink!
The next step will be put Britney, Brad Pitt, Clooney pics here...
ow... i cant wait for...
So this is what if feels like to be inside that bubble gum I stepped in.
MY EYES! I can't see a thing, this hurts! Seriously, it's too bright! It remembers me a episode when Dexter (from Dexter's Laboratory) invades Deedee's room and is attacked by thost pink soft creatures.. fear...FEAR!
...annoying MySpace-style I'm a Barbie Girl music in the background!
I blame geof's speakers.
HEY, my idol Bill O'Reilly said I'd become gay if I look at Pink. I'm afraid my priest (who fondeled Bill O'Reilly when he was young), will turn me in if he finds out I visit a pink website. /.tters, I'm in a fix -- what do I do? Keep visiting the website I'm fond of... or earn Mr. O'Reilly's wrath.
AAAAHHHHHH...
yeah, somehow i don't think this will go down in the best remembered april fools day jokes, but good effort, i like pink
i ask everyone. does pink make you puke? it does me and i'm a chix0r. (just kidding with the use of the term chix0r). but i'm definitely a female. and i'm going blind. although i appreciate the thought slashdot.
Where's the CowboyNeal naked picture? THAT is appealing!
...I thought the tears in my eyes were due to laughter.
Then I realized the tears were caused by my retinas melting from staring at these colors! ....My eyes! My eyes!
Thank Heavens Thinkgeek has a perfect solution for this color problem!
Whew! This water sure is cold!
I for one welcome our new pony riding overloads!
or...
In Soviet Russia, pony rides you... ewww...
Distributed proteome folding @ WorldCommunityGrid.org
Team Slashdot - Members:#1 Run Time:#1 Points:#1 Results:#1
I field tested the new design on my techie, smart wife, and she said "if this is how they expect to attract women, no wonder most of their readers are home alone jerking off".
...and her reaction confirms that she really is a girl techie. She's bitter, surly, and hostile to men.
*ducks*
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
"I can definitely feel myself getting in touch with my inner....oh, never mind..."
Just remember to wash your hands after you're done.
It burns my eyes!
"...today consumers have been conditioned to think of beer when they see a bullfrog..."
Pink Slashdot looks pretty cool, apart from all the green bits.
Well I had no idea what was going on because I was running slashdotter and I have it set to show all pages in the apple style. Will the writer of slashdotter Please add this new Fem friedly style to slashdotter ASAP. This really helped me get in touch with my inner thi err thoughts
Thanks.
OMG Ponies!!! with Glitter!!!! I miss Pink
The "media" elements for the homepage (and others) include:
http://images.slashdot.org/slashtitle-fools.gif
http://images.slashdot.org/slashcorner-fools.gif
http://images.slashdot.org/slashbar-fools.gif
What more do you need, guys?
Andy
Yeep! Have I shrouded to that nature spirit again? I wanted the six-legged gecko berserker. Darn.
Do not mock my vision of impractical footwear
My eyes are getting hurt by reading those white text around by pinks; even hurt when read pink text with gray around:) April Fool
lolz wheres my mp3 torrents wtf lozl lozl lozzl since when did oink start running slash code
Would someone PLEASE submit Slashdot to the Web Pages That Suck people ASAP?
Thanks!
I just finished filling out a trouble ticket up at Viewsonic! I thought my LCD had gone stupid! IT AINT APRIL YET!!
I was hoping Slashdot would be immune to this kind of stupidity this year. Life is a continuous disappointment, followed by death.
It begins.
I think the Slashdot editors took the term "Fruitful" a little too literally.
Unfortunately, a more accurate rendering is not "Omygawd!!!111" but "Oh. My. God."
My eyeballs.
/. and what do I see...pink. As pink as Kurumi's hair.
They burn.
I *just* got done putting in a new monitor, hit
My eyballs.
They burn.
You br0ke my new monitor, you bastards.
Feliz dia del pendejo, pendejos!
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.
But, I turned it all back on, and
<SQUEAL> OMG I LUV IT! </SQUEAL>
I'm telling all my girlfriends to do their site just like this. It is so t3h cuteness!
XOXOXOXOXO
Friends 4-Ever!
It's soooo special, I almost cried.
Actually, I am crying.
And a little nauseous.
[
To turn off slashdot's pink april fool's crap(in firefox), get this and install it.
http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/
Go to the CSS menu on the toolbar, choose "disable styles->individual stylesheet->slashdot_fool.css"
You'll have to do it for every page, but at least your eyes won't burn out of their sockets.
Talk about the lows of desperation. ;) :p
Success!
In soviet Russia, Pink turns into webpage and April dumps you... Fool.
...that April Fool's Day lands on the weekend both this year and next year. Since I don't often read slashdot on the weekend, perhaps that means I'll miss most of this foolishness.
See you all Monday.
[ home ]
This cracked me up. Been here since day 1 (or maybe 2), and this is
probably the funniest april fools prank they've pulled IMHO.
Of course, I think i need my brain scrubbed after seeing
this new style.. the pain! the pain!
You do realize that any semblance of manlihood I have left evaporated upon showing this page in the presence of my colleagues at work, don't you...DON'T YOU?!?!
I think we can call this the San Francisco (Castro) Motif..mmmmmm!
WOOF!
Ice.
Don't be so obvious next time.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
i suppose i should introduce myself. i'm THE girl who actually reads slashdot. i am, in fact, real. i'm not fat, i don't like pink, i don't say OMG, but i have worked in IT & modeled. so, hi to the larger slice of the pie. i loves my nerds!
With all this horse shit there's got to be a pony around here somewhere!!!
Ze goggles! Zey do NOSSING!
Don't trust a bull's horn, a doberman's tooth, a runaway horse or me.
UGH!! Gagh, puke!! since the male favored color is generally blue, and female, pink; Green is a very fine compromise!!!!!!
Huh. I thought those mushrooms on my pizza seemed a little odd.....
I love the Web Developer plugin for the Mozilla browsers like Firefox. When it's installed, it's trivially easy to select the CSS drop down menu, the select the Disable Styles - Individual Styles and uncheck slashdot_fool.css. The pink goes away just like that. I'm sure there are other ways to do that, but this was just so cool that I had to share. Though, I guess that using the Edit CSS sidebar is even more cool because you can see the colours change AS YOU TYPE in the CSS window.
Signatures are a waste of bandwi (buffering...)
At first I thought my LCD was broken.
Then I noticed "OMG PONIEZ" and thought Slashdot was hacked.
Then I thought, "wait a fucking second, what's the date today..."
Still beats last year. My boss called me up and went "YOU'RE FIRED! APRIL FOOLS!"
I emailed him back something like "CATASTROPHIC SYSTEM FAILURE ON THE FILESERVER! APRIL FOOLS!"
I won that round.
Assume I was drunk when I posted this.
Wow, great joke. I get it, women love pink and ponies so if you want to draw more women to slashdot you should make sexist jokes based on these stereotypes(which are usually reserved for 13 year old girls BTW). Clever you!
Who's responsible for forcing Choo-Choo into transforming himself into a website theme? Have you no shame?
Oh, the humanity!
I have a hangover. Please stop!
I don't want a pickle; I just want a Motor-Cycle! A four foot cop arrived with a five foot gun!
I would be great if you could share your modeling with the rest of us, thank you
Well, I'm gonna find your inner child and kick its little ass!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Another completely wasted day for Slashdot is underway. One that's going to be full of fake bullshit stories like this one. In a couple of hours the onslaught will be tiring. By noon it will be insanely boring. By evening, readers will be pounding their heads against the screen because the only people that find it funny will be those posting stories.
Slashdot has already been obsoleted by Digg, so it'll be interesting to see how Digg handles April 1st. I'm guessing the first few April 1st stories will be appear on Digg's front page - then the rest will be flushed down the toilet by annoyed readers. No such luxury here at Slashdot, where we have to put up with whatever drivel the editors smear all over the front page.
So this pink color scheme does actually fit because Slashdot editors are nothing more than a bunch of four year old girls if they think this is funny.
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It isn't even April fools yet! I think I'm going to be sick.
AHHHHH my retinas
it evokes images of those pink ipods teenage girls seem to adore
of course you can all ignore the fact that I'm (unfortunately) a member of that sex and age group- aka I have to live among the giggling, screeching masses.
True, the majority of readers here are undoubtly males. I often find myself the lone female at most...no...all LAN's, hence the ability to play under the character name "theFemale" and still have everyone know who I am. The self-evident fact is that the tiny female percentage that does post and follow the headlines most likely consists of the more intellectual crowd. These women can probably change their own tires, build their own desktops, and most importantly think independently. I retain a sense of pride in the fact that I am a member of this minority; a minority that's focused on the important issues rather than what color to paint their nails.
also, no, I'm not a lesbian - in fact I'n a great relationship at the present.
and no that relationship isn't with my computer, though I love it dearly
Gaydotted?
Pinkdotted?
Bra blasted?
Pony Stampede?
that models don't really love nerds. at least, not poor ones. and not in the way that they need to be loved.
There's a certain subtly to successful April Fools jokes; it works better when people aren't sure if you're joking or not (e.g. the Gmail introduction).
I remember April Fools back in '99, I was working my first job as a developer and I was sent way up to the oil fields in northern Alberta to get some of our software working. It was hell. Our software was pretty much crap at the time, and that place is fucked up enough as it is. Anyway, I spent half the day thinking that society was crumbling as each time I would visit Slashdot my head would explode. It wasn't until well into the afternoon that I realized what day it was.
My point is, instead of using some My Little Pony color scheme that fools no one, why not unleash a radical new, but serious, design for Slashdot. Keep people on their toes. And if it really sucks, they can always revert back and say it was a joke.
ENDUT! HOCH HECH!
I'm pretty sure it's because tomorrow is apr1. I think someone sent this out early.
Oh, you silly North American-centric person . . . yeah, okay, I was a bit confused for a second myself, but just think in GMT/UCT and everything makes sense.
I remember sigs. Oh, a simpler time!
I dont wanna read all 300+ comments to check, but I for one, welcome our new pink overlords. Just in case you know, it aint been done, anyway time to pass out cause I am drunk and its 2:30 in morning.
Come as you are, do what you must, be who you will.
We want geek chicks!!!
We want geek chicks!!!
We want geek chicks!!!
Yeah I'm ready for some womens up in this piece. Word.
I'm deeply disappointed about the lack of actual ponies.
This mistake should be promptly rectified lest slashdot lose its place as a respected technology news source.
From one of the apparently 2% of slashdot readers, stop making fun of us. Women programmers deserve to be taken seriously. If you want to attract more female readers, advertise in female geek circles. And stop pulling disgusting, derogatory crap like this. WTF Slashdot! Lythn
At least it goes with the April Fool's Joke. And hand me some welder's goggles.
Yahoo gave everyone ice cream. Slashdot should give us all free cake.
Don't look at Slashdot for the next 24 hours?
pants
See:
l avor=archive&list=ruby&id=20050914155500
http://www.linuxuniversity.org/cgi-bin/mail.cgi?f
So go have a pony parade today!
I just got back from the pub (that's a bar to those from the US), and i really thought I had had too much to drink, but then I realised, it's April first (technically, as it's 2:45am here). I actually quite like the pink, although it's making my eyes slightly fatigued from viewing it...
I actually learnt in my human computer interaction that the current colour of slashdot is the one which helps you keep your attention longest, which is pretty obvious as I have it open about 16 hours of the day...
you silly editors, you.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
OMG!!! Pussies!!!
I just happened to sit down at my wife's computer and check Slashdot. The wife just recently got her own account (yes, I am lucky) ... and when I saw this I freaked! Simultaneously thought "cool, there's some kind of customizing," and "what in the world prompted her to spend the time to do this ... and ... hey ... she wouldn't say "ponies" ... what gives?"
Secession is the right of all sentient beings.
Next year I can't wait to see flash ads and movies and marqueeing text going in all directions ala Myspace.
"Websites", plural?
Share the others, girlfriend!
Nice April fools joke guys, :: claps ::
Women programmers deserve to be taken seriously.
Pfffft. Whatever you say, honey.
England PREVAILS!
...Fixed that for you.
'If you're flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.'
of an hour?
To discover what?
Weapons of Masculinity Destruction?
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
I heard about this from some friends that live in the seattle area. This was just before defcon last year. It is aperently legal to have sex with animals there. The very scary part is there's a video somewhere (I don't know where, don't want to), the guy has 'relations' with the horse, asks if he 'finished' and then went to the hospitial where he died of a perferated colon... So, that's a not-so-great story, here's the funny.. At blackhat 05, there was an issue with cisco, it became dubbed, "ciscogate" Shirts were made, on the front, cisco gate, on the back was the saying we'd come to enjoy all week, "horse cock" as seen here: http://23b.org/gallery/fleas_defcon_13/ala I BELIEVE it was tomshardware that used a picture of the front of the shirt on a table along side their story of the events. If you look very closely, you just make out the back of the shirt... :)
...you beat me to it! Damnit!
Great movie, though. Great movie.
'If you're flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.'
Ok so you can force whatever color scheme you want to use on slashdot, right? By manually putting in apple.slashdot.org or linux.slashdot.org or games.slashdot.org into the URL of whatever page youre looking at? Maybe they will keep this design around for later and you can just do like pink.slashdot.org ? I want to impress all my friends !
Come on now.... if you're gonna post this crap atleast wait until the right day :)
This gag has obviously been a _long_ time in the planning - an entire site redesign just to pull the ol' April Fool's Website Theme Change Switcheroo... nice!
Wow, pepto-bismol pink.
::barf::
I think I'm getting nauseous. Too many memories of the pink stuff after eating bad food in college.
Moderation is for Monks!
xoxoxox - like this is the bestist design evah!!! 3 3 3 3 3
Oh, thank you, God for making me colorblind!!
It's one of those rare times when pink looking grey-ish blue is a GOOD thing.
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
Slashdot.org
I insist that subscribers be not forced to see this bloody pink...
OMG Ponies!!!
This color really matches my handbag and shoes.
I know this is intended as an April Fool's joke, but I kind of like it...
Ze Goggles do nothing!!!
May the Maths Be with you!
you still need javascript effects and music to pass as a 14 year olds myspace page.
Mike
I heart the RIAA & MPAA, im sure its mutual...
The pink! My poor retinas!
OMG!!! SLASHDOT RULE$$!!!
Finally they expose the real reason for switching to CSS. Such a design change would be infeasible without the wonders of stylesheets.
Damn it! Some warning next time? Not cool when you're in the middle of a hotspot and being horrified when your laptop screen goes pink on you. I just had a woman mutter fag under her breath after she saw my screen.
And it's like four hours until April 1st.
I haven't laughed this hard in a while, and I lead a pretty lighthearted life. Kudos to Slashdot. I'm glad I wasn't drinking coffee or it would have shot out my nose...
Ahhhh!!!! My Eyes!!!! They BURN!!!!
I'm never leaving the safety of Google Reader again.
fault-tolerant
Oh, so THAT's why they did all the switching to CSS...
oh god, its pink....
Noone writes jokes in base 13!
April's fools I guess. Nice joke.
( ) Pink
( ) Brown
( ) CowboyNeal
[Vote] [ Results | Polls ]
/. is good for you.
You're killing me. MY EYES! MY EYESsss!!!!
The themes is a lot less ugly than some of the old category themes, I hope they keep it.
See subject....
As a girl with a Slashdot account, I have to say I'm horrified. Even as a joke, it's a sick one; and I agree with the 'wife' who said 'no wonder they're all at home jerking off'. -brea
For my very first post on /.
To the sick, twisted, sadistic geek that sent me here: I love you.
To the deranged individual that changed everything pink: I bow before you in adoration.
Now which one of you is going to pay to fix the burns on my retinas?
The goggles! They do nothing!
Seriously, my eyes are burning... I'm not used to such bright colours, you insensitive clods.
Oh. My. God. That's hot.
"All you have to do is be fragile and grateful. So stay the underdog." Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
I love ponies and pink just fine. What I don't like is the site design change happening while I'm offline after a power outage during a tornado warning with golfball sized hail. And then coming back to xchat losing its settings and then checking e-mail and the first thing I see on /. is a reply and not having seen the front page yet. That's really irritating when they got you thinking your power going out might have screwed stuff up so bad it altered online settings.
Where does the idea that females have a predilection for pink come from? Or that they speak in spastic phrases punctuated with squeals? You're offending your female readers by implying they have no taste and few brains. Yes, the majority of the readership for this site may be male, but I think you would be surprised at the number of women who also frequent this site, not only for the computer geek articles, but for those that touch on science and politics as well. I realize this is just for fun, but some of the comments are rude and insulting. I don't mean to rant by any means, but I always get a kick out of visiting /. It's part of my 'catching up with the world' routine at the end of the day. And it sucks to get onto the site to find my entire gender being made fun of.
I for one welcome our new Pretty Pony overlords.
I've been upgraded to "bad"!
This has to be the worst April Fools joke in atleast a year...
http://chickencamels.poemofquotes.com/
Eww. How do I turn down the contrast on this thing? :-) I think I might be going blind.
BTW I'm color blind, lol
AHHHHH my retinas
it evokes images of those pink ipods teenage girls seem to adore
of course you can all ignore the fact that I'm (unfortunately) a member of that sex and age group- aka I have to live among the giggling, screeching masses.
True, the majority of readers here are undoubtly males. I often find myself the lone female at most...no...all LAN's, hence the ability to play under the character name "theFemale" and still have everyone know who I am. The self-evident fact is that the tiny female percentage that does post and follow the headlines most likely consists of the more intellectual crowd. These women can probably change their own tires, build their own desktops, and most importantly think independently. I retain a sense of pride in the fact that I am a member of this minority; a minority that's focused on the important issues rather than what color to paint their nails.
also, no, I'm not a lesbian - in fact I'n a great relationship at the present.
and no that relationship isn't with my computer, though I love it dearly
Kcim here,
I hope this lay out is a joke, it looks all washed out. also my Konqueror browser has not ben displaying
slashdot correctly. mainly the text body overlays the right hand colunm. now the links etc. look all washed out . I hope it gets put back soon,It's too hard to read,Note I have a color preception problem (partly color blind)so may be it is just me.Now to find my password so i can do a proper login (my auto login got junked some how)
The remove pictures/save bandwidth feature has a use after all.
To force that on all of the people who have chosen "simple design."
I had to switch back to defaults to get the full effect.
Web 2.0 == Giant Blogspam Circle Jerk
The "fake news" thing got boring over the years. This is the best April Fools joke in /. in a long time.
/. team!
The WTF-ometer went to Overload when I opened the page. Kudos,
The filesystem is the package manager
I have no problem with pink; but to be a little easier to read, how about a darker shade of pink.
I was really hoping for cute little bows on the corners of everything...
If you don't remove this hideous color immediatly I will be forced to report you to the FBI. Having been a computer user for 2998 years I can without hesitation say this must be a plot of Osama Bin Lately.
I now go to wash out my eyes with caustic lye.
Matt's addition to Occam's Razor:"The most simple answer is preferred by those that are simple."
Once i overcame my momentary nausea ... secondary shock ... blinked my eyes a couple of times ... decided i didn't hit a pron site by accident ... i decided to join (after lurking for more than a few years :) to add myself to 1.7%. ya! what can i say! your marketing worked!
happy april 1!
that you just p*ssed off. when the 98.3% leave, at least your marketing department can be content knowing they manipulated their "demographics."
how about a slashdot article on the eye strain caused by that awful pinkish / purplish color?
come to your senses - quickly.
otherwise, i might get work done!
ps - yes, this *is* what happens when amrketing runs the show... and it ain't pretty.
Normally I am not particularily intested in lame gender sterotypes but, I actually like the pink colours! I hope slashdot leaves the CSS file up as an "alternative" style sheet. I'm not even joking.
The OMG's, Ponies, etc... are awesome for a joke (ie. one day a year, or maybe every couple of months) but the actual colour skin is pretty nice, I think the contrast has to be turned down a little bit, but otherwise it's way nicer than the greeny-cyanish slashdot colour. There should be more hearts floating around too...
Why can't geeky news be cute too?
Hmmmm... I feel kind of torn about this:
Yes, this is sexist because it enforces gender stereotypes and beliefs that over the long term are being used for gender oppression. It also ties in with sexuality, which is apparent when you look at some of the other comments. In one comment a guy complains about looking like a faggot when caught viewing slashdot on his notebook. In another comment, a woman proudly claims to be one of the 2%, but has a disclaimer about not being a lesbian.
On the other hand, I feel very uncomfortable in geek/nerd environments because of the misogyny, classism, racism, and homophobic... so when I first saw this play on gender it was from the point of view "Hey! maybe this will interrupt the gender norm at slashdot!!" or perhaps raise a little awareness, but I hear you, and agree with you that this April Fool's joke is sexist and I wish we would all take the time to learn how not to hurt non-male genders.
Abuzar
Mistake, now you will have to deal with 5X10 to the 15th proposals for marriage, dates and photos. Never ever admit to being a femaile unless you secretly are a male FBI ageant of 30+yrs trolling for preverts.
Matt's addition to Occam's Razor:"The most simple answer is preferred by those that are simple."
The first thought through my head was that Slashdot had been hacked and defaced. I've been laughing my ass off ever since. It's better than the cheese and corn that we've been fed on April Fool's the last few years, I'll give 'em that.
:D
Technoli
Slashdot: MySpace for geeks. I used to think it was. Now I know it is. The LOL/OMG :) :) :) made it obvious.
Scarry!
Charles Wyble System Engineer
you got it... css.
;-)
now kiddies, you won't have to ask why css is so important anywmore, right?
OMG boring!
Isn't it a bit to early for this April Fools joke should only be done on April 1st
To get its full effect, this story should have gone out at precisely Sat Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 2006. It's 24 minutes late!
Since this is an April fool's topic, I thought I'd take another chance to get modded "Redundant". Thanks.
The web will be useless tomorrow. Maybe that's a good thing? Pulling the trigger a little early eh Taco??
Gorkman
Context for parent: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/01/09
There are 11 types of people. Those who understand binary, those who don't and those who are sick of this lame joke.
Man that pink is hard on the eyes. Thank you apple for ctrl+option+command+8.
Let me guess, If I like this I'm a dumb blond and if I don't then I'm a dumb bitch with no sense of humour. All I can say is I hate being female.
Holy fuck I thought my CRT tried to commit suicide!
Gentoo Linux - Wouldn't have it any other way. And fuck beta.
after i overcame my nausea ... blinked a few times and realised that i wasn't on a pron site ... got over the shock ... i joined :) after lurking on your site for a few years ... what can i say ... your marketing worked! can we have a few bunnies ... please?
always liked your site, and i'm a girl :) you guys are the best!
happy april 1 - soooo funny!
Character #2665, "BLACK HEART SUIT". I don't think Unicode's general enough for you to use it as a combiner, though. But a Unicode-savvy version of LaTeX probably can. Keep that in mind the next time you want to annoy your math professor.
If this is an April fools it is possibly The most Homo thing I have ever seen (OMG you so got me) and WTF it's the 31st....... Isn't April fools soposed to be something Believable and In the end funny once it is reviled to be a trick for fools? SlashDot must think we are all mindless fools who have no ability to comprehend a real April fools.
I can barely read the sidebars!
What do you care if 98.3% of the readers are males - you're fucking fags, anyway!
Change this goddamn theme back before I have to change my SIG again!
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
I mean, is pink the new black?
APRIL FOOLS see my report of this here
I actually love the pink. Granted I'm a woman, but I would actually love to see Slashdot a little more feminine.
Compared to the standard palette.
APRIL FOOLS!
I hereby nominate the name "Brokebackdot."
It took an uninstall, and a viewing in IE before I got that Ah-Ha feeling.
Microsft this, thinkgeek that, rackspace over there. What kind of sane women is going to click on those?
My eyes! The googles do nothing!!!!!
Tell me this is a terrorist defacement!
Some days it's just not worth
chewing through my restraints.
As if millions of /.ers suddenly cried out in terror, and we're suddenly silenced :).
I know lame but someone had to say it .
"The boy is dangerous, they all sense it, why can't you?"
Congratulations slashdot and slashdot commenters, you've succeeded once again in belittling roughly half the population, discouraging techie girls/women from slashdot, reinforcing harmful stereotypes, and asserting your insecurity and immaturity. Do you feel better about yourselves now?
Thankfully you are not representative of many in computer/open source communities.
LOL
The design change casts THIS STORY in a whole new light.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Thinking you can change colors to barbie and appeal to more female audience is really insulting and downgrading. This is a very childish look and certainly won't attract real thinking women. I have had slashdot headlines on my google personalized page to stay up with what is going on but I just removed it from my radar chart completely. I hope other professional women will do that same.
I, for one, welcome our new pink pony overlords...
So does that mean we can get back to serious news about 4PM Pacific time?
Or are we going to have to go through TWO days of this crud?
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
So, is every post from now 'til forever going to be tagged gay? Trying to expand your demographic is one thing, but giving a certain sexual orientation credit for every tech story that's posted? That's going a bit far...
I guess I should just be grateful it's not " WTFOMG!! Gay Ponies!!1! "
... salute our new metrosexual overlords.
This is my post. There are many others like it. If you don't like what you read here, go try one of the others.
Good thing I changed the style of slashdot with slashdotter. Now what I see is a weird mix of pink and black.
They missed making money on the new look, they should have cut an advertizing deal with the people that own the My Little Pony trademark.
:D
Finally geek and pink empowerment!
*It's not what you can do for the Dark Side but what the Dark Side can do for you!*
You have taken the April Fools jokes too far. This is so not funny.
/^([Ss]ame [Bb]at (time, |channel.)){2}$/
but i dont see any pink colour..
may be I should change from lynx!!
I don't want knowledge. I want certainty. - Law, David Bowie
For me, I don't see the Tagging option anymore (which was apparently only available to "some" users) but I see some Javascripty thing when I click on "X replies beneath your current threshold" which opens up lower-rated comments without a page reload.
Please tell me this is an April fools gag.
this is way not good. Black text, and grey background Plea
I believe my eyes just got burned to dust. Check..... Yep.
-- Odd Rune Strommen
I suggest getting a mouse gestures extension. You only need one hand to click and drag and boom, your looking at slashdot.
Do you have the same annoying talking pony thing in your house as we had in ours?
"I'm a pretty pony, clippity-clop, clippity-clop. Such a pretty pony, clippity-clop, clippity-clop. I like to have my hair brushed, underneath the old oak tree. Let's jump and run, we'll have lots of fun, when you come and play with meeeeee!"
We got rid of ours a year ago, and I still remember that damn song.
A post a day keeps productivity at bay.
There needs to be a proper ISO specification for April fools.
I know that the 2.6 kernel for linux has the beginnings of this
and there has been some word from MS insiders that similar technology
could be built into Vista this year (but would cause more delays).
Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman are both bullish (gnuish)
regarding the addition of AF technology to linux under the 2.6
kernel.
There was also a write up recently in Dr. Dobbs Journal regarding
the use of ISO AF in the development of frontline middleware tool
chains. These would be used in a purely algorithmic sense to gleen
statistical data from long haul fiber.
But without a proper ISO spec it would appear that AF
may stay in purely in the domain of temporal periodics.
...the article text even hints at the idea that the slashdot crew somehow believe that this new layout is in any way "girly" is pretty damn derogatory and gives a pretty good explanation as to the notion of a complete inability to get any in the nerd stereotype.
I can't say that I've met any girl over the age of eight who said, "OMG!!! PONIES!!!"
As if it wasnt bad enough that yesterday they announced the new transit line in Chicago will be the Pink Line... now Slashdot goes pink.
I think I'm going to go hide under my bed for a while.
And no, I'm not joking about Chicago getting a Pink Line. Believe me, I wish I was.
You can live your life in a thousand ways, but it call comes down to that single day...
Just saw an add for an AOL 90 Day Free Trial on the rhs of this story.
Please tell me this is part of the April Fools crap also as I thought they were up to 270 days or something. I felt like I was in a time warp or something...
Gah.
There's a gorilla from Manilla whose a fella that stinks of vanilla and has salmonella.
http://www.omgponies.com/
Even scarier, notice the registration date!
WHAT THE FUCK?
I am the maverick of Slashdot
Keep the scheme: It is perfect for the current Slashdot crowd.
They love "warm and fuzzies", especially the ones that come from the articles about "Their Rights Online", where they get to read about how the nasty bad corporate interests are trying to stop them from infringing on their copyrights, because after all, information wants to be free, and, it doesn't cost anything to reproduce digitally, they wouldn't have bought it anyway and it's all corporate mass-produced crap anyway.
They get to vent about how bad "The Man" is, to want to make them pay for their entertainment, because God gave them the right to be entertained for free, after all.
Oh, and let's not forget the OSX articles: Where all the Apple fanbois get to ejaculate about how much better Apple is, while conveniently ignoring the closed nature of their hardware (Consistency? What's that?)
And please, let's not forget the "I have a Linux Server in my bedroom, so I feel qualified to expostulate upon the enterprise-worthiness of Linux" crowd: They're always a good source of information for those of us that actually have to maintain global enterprise networks, especially the posts from the Gentoo idiots.
I think that the last truly nerdy discussion I saw on Slashdot was over 5 years ago.
BTW, I'm NOT angry - I'm mostly admiring: The founders sold out long ago, yet still make lots of money, and the current corporate ownership reaps lots of dough from the advertising, which results from all the wannabes here - they post here because they think that they're nerds, think they've a clue, when the truth is, everyone with a clue left a long time ago, and we only come back from time to time to laugh, and vent.
Nice work if you can get it.
I am 67 years old and have been reading /. almost since its inception. At my age, however my eyesight plays tricks on me, and pink and white tend to alternate. Possibly you could recommend some 27 year old geekesse to read the articles to me.
Cheers
Now you have raised the bar. I better see rainbows on the Apple section.
signed - the 1.7
Lane Myer: I have great fear of tools. I once made a birdhouse in woodshop and the fair housing committee condemned it.
OMG! I predicterered this!! LOL
"Derp de derp."
As Bill the cat would say... Puh-leeze go back to normal. Is this your pre-April Fools attempt at humor ? paul
TOTALY!!!
Chances are any disscution on Slashdot will degrade into a flamewar about ID/Christianity within 14 posts.
My humble two cents worth is that as a visually impared person your color scheme is not a good one. The headlines are nearly invible in the fade.
I was sitting here (Honiara, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, tropical garden outside, ADSL connection, beautiful local girl - suffer 98.3%) laughing hard at the site when my (beautiful local girl) significant other comes over and for the first time was interested in Slashdot. I'll have to get that proxy set up on my network...
So, did the Big Ol' Slashdot CSS Reworking make this fabulous change any easier? Because I think this could be the biggest reason for pushing web standards that make changes like this so easy and routine!
This sig is certified free of self-referential humour!
conspiracy? www.pinkbike.com same theme, better pictures. Both are cute though.
This would have to emphatically confirm Taco is now a fully fledged Mac User!
Well you attracted me back... just to add another voice to the several great comments, both from those with accounts and those anonymous, that believe this "joke" is just sexism. Saying it's a joke and we should just take it as one is a form of bullying.
You've gotta be fuckin kidding me. No wonder you geeks can't get dates. And don't get me wrong. Geeks are cute. But sexist geeks? Go pee up a rope.
Usually I just disregard anything Slashdot posts on April the first. Over the years the April 1st jokes have been fairly subpar and kind-of obvious. I thought I'd drop over to check things out anyway, masochist that I am.
However, this year it's good. "OMG!!! Ponies!!!" is priceless. You owe me some wipes for my monitor. Well done guys, seriously.
and I'm still concerned by the type of females attracted to the pink and pony show going on at the top of my browser.
... there are probably more females out there reading slashdot than you know but never post. This is my first post but I have the RSS feed ...
... nothing wrong with ponies but if you REALLY want to pull in the girls ... you'll need more substance LOL!!
I think it's funny but
And you need other headlines like "You vs. The Internet: How to Make Him Get Online with You" or "Make-Up for Web Cams" Ponies
I fucking hate April 1st.
I'm glad to see that at least your awareness is raised. Looking at the current mods on the commentary though, I don't have high hopes for the rest of the crowd. I probably would have not have had such a strong reaction to this had I not experienced it both at school and work.
All those years of "boys are stupid, throw rocks at them" are starting to come back home to roost now as guys decide not to give a shit about making fun of women in return.
The problem is that this Slashdot stunt is like Bush indiscriminately nuking the Middle East to get rid of Islam: you irradiate friendly Israel as well. Also see tuna nets and dolphins.
I'm all for getting back at male bashers and hitting them where they're sensitive. Making fun of stupid arrogant women who think they're perfect and who put down men, is 100% good sport. But not when it also offends the smart geek grrls. Smart geek grrls are hard to cultivate, harder to get to come out of hiding, and nearly impossible to date&mate. (Yes, I said date&mate. All things equal, I'd rather have geek grrls breeding like rabbits than the idiots we see having kids now and polluting our society with "evolution is satanism! global warming is caused by sunspots and swamp gas reflecting off of Venus! Clinton caused the Great Depression!") This Slashdot stunt set us years back.
--- Grow a pair, liberals... stop letting the Republicans bully you!
If you could just all the interface elements to go pink, and not just the top half the page, it'd be worth keeping. But then, I have a Mac so everything's pastel already and it just blends in.
Is the guy that was talking about April Fool's Day being on UTC time correct? Or is it local time?
... belongs in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/
Yes! As part of the 1.7% of women that look at this site, I HeaRT PoNieS Too! Yay! 0:o)
54.3% of all statistics are made up and 91.0% of those are made up on the spot.
Scott Swezey
I can't think of anything Taco & Crew could have done that would peg higher on the outrageous meter.
Oh GAWD - make it STOP already . . .
[user background audio]
Honey, I smell something burning!
[/user background aud-
***USER JACKEDOUT***
SARAVA!
No, really, I mean it. Slashdot's adoption of the hot pink logos indicates that they have fallen to the Metrosexuals of the planet Transexual in the galaxy Transylvania. Had the staff of Slashdot really intended to draw in more females while retaining their current male readership, they would have used a gener neutral color, not hot pink.
As proof, I point out that we have been reading posts for some time from someone who identifies himself only as "Cowboy Neal." Now that "Brokeback Mountain" has brought all the Marlboro men out of the closet, we MUST suspect him of plotting this.
I won't even go into the various interpretations of "Cmdr Taco," I leave that as an exercise for the reader.
Nitewing '98
Everything works...in theory.
I feel dirty
if I could change the world, it would have a reset button
thought up a day full of pranks needs to be summarily shot, drawn and quartered and..... Pain! Lots and lots of pain!!! *shudder*
could we make it rotating? could we make it baby pink on Monday, Wednessday, Friday and Sunday and baby blue on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday?
I'm a barbie girl, in a barbie woooorld! Come on barbie! Let's go PARTYYYYYYYYY!
42 + 1 = 42
SO im chatting and decide to tell this lady friend about this website I check out all the time, touting my nerdness.
Well I don't think she found any nerdness when seeing the site
Thanks alot. I let you know when she turns me down for a date.
Thanks Slashdot. thanks alot
I'm guessing you never tried to browse your site in Safari - but this new theme doesn't really work.
I used to have a better sig than this, but I got tired of it
I just showed the new /. design to my girlfriend... she was very interested !!
It's amusing to see the few other women on here getting so uptight about this... Admittedly, my only other post was about how cute apple was, but I think this is quite a funny april fool's joke. After I stopped having a heart attack, and the nausea, that is. (nausea brought about by mistyping the url due to pre-coffee attention span as http://http//slashdot.com)
I'll seek civil action
this is seriously the worst site design ive seen ever. if u dont change it to a less horrible colour im gonna leave....
kingTu
Oh this is like SO cool! Does this mean we can sit around writing My Little Pony fanfics all day?
Please, oh please, oh please?
I'm Pink! Therefore I'm Spam!
"and discovered that our audience is strangely disproportionately skewed towards males. Like, 98.3% males to be precise"
This is bigger than any news i've seen this year, come on guys, SPREAD THE WORD! There are women on slashdot!!!!!!!!
I'm a Republican. Slashdot has always looked pink to me.
Sometimes at night I imagine the darkness is filled with horrible things with too many teeth, like Julia Roberts.
Aren't these April Fools pranks supposed to be plausible (at least, at first)? Kinda gives it away in the first sentence with the assertion that there's someone at SlashDot who acts based on the results of research...
Am I part of the core demographic for Swedish Fish?
I hate Slashdot on April first!
OMG! You mean this colour will stick?
Patents Drive Free Software as Hurricanes Drive Construction Industry
Its not pink for me,i have not found Hex code yet,am I color blind now??
Cause you got it wrong the first time.
"Little things hitting each other. THAT'S WHAT I LIKE!" - Time Bandits
I like it, actually. Is there any chance that we'll be able to keep this, as a user-selectable skin or something similar? :)
quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.
In a non-ironic sense -- I actually prefer this design. Sure, I'm female, but it somehow takes the harshness out of /.
Please don't bring the old ugly green back!
"Frag the weak, hurdle the dead, and assassinate those cursed snipers."
Gay Slashdot????
It was in pink with bunnies on it too! Strange how Aprils Fools Day is the end of the first quarter. I wonder what kind of reality is in store for SOE and their Superior Competitors in the second quarter.
Love that Jestor, the clowned Prince of SOE's Stupitity
This is awesome! I've been trying to get in touch with my feminine side several times a day now for as long as I can remember. No ... wait ... that's not it. Oh ... I've just been touching myself several times a day for as long as I can remember.
pink.........ponies.........hearts.......... shoot........me..........now...........before..... ...I..........go.............insane
Maybe your research department should stop smoking dragon weed so that colors may be returned to readable.
This is HORRIBLE!!!
This color scheme is cruel when I haven't even had my first cup of coffee yet...
I think it's cool -- slashdot should keep the change!!
Who runs http://www.airliners.net/?
WTF are all you people talking about? I read slashdot in Lynx.
Make America grate again!
Good by Slashdot!
I can not read anything on this site now.
haven't had my coffee yet ... still waiting for pink bunnies to appear ... commander taco i demand my rights as a woman to have pink bunnies added to this site.
Geek Grrls Unite!
ok ... trash me all you want but ..
somehow I like it - it's so hilariously bad that it's good again =)
"Nae Kin! Nae Quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna be fooled again!"
It depends on your time zone. April Fools is almost over in Australia. (Do you guys celebrate AFD down in Australia?)
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
Anyone else notice how all of the April Fool's posts were tagged 'gay'? I don't particularly like that. But it's the general public, not /.'s editors. What are folksonomy sites supposed to do when they end up reflecting realworld prejudices and stereotypes?
Wizards of the coast announced today that they will start making a My little pony RPG. Coincidence? I think not.
If noone rtfa, then what's the slashdot effect?
I could live with this color!
This is the first thing I thought of when I saw PINK, first thing this morning!
Roses are #FF0000,
Violets are #0000FF,
All my base are belong to you!
3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
how is babby formed?
I think this makes this site more popular among 10-12 year old girls, who still play with My Little ponies.. But content might keep them away. Well i was happily supriced about the new design.
Geez.
And where's the gossip? A little American Idol news, huh?
And if I can't find Jenny from health class online, why would I ever use your website?
Oh, and air the damn thing it out! This site is gonna take two months to stop smelling of man stink anyhow!
For that matter, empty the trash, wash some dishes, and let the cat in.
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
He did a similar thing for april fools a few years backp ril_fools04
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=a
Yeah. I got on today looking for the one good 1 April funny article that was likely to appear. Instead I'm greeted with "OMG!!! Ponies!!!!"
Then I find out it's all about trying to attract a female readership? Yeah, I know it's 1 April. I know it's a joke. It's just *sooooo* funny, too: attracting female readership means dumbing it down! hahaha! I get it! LOL!!! ROTFLMAO!!!!
Yeah. I used to brag that computer science was a great place for females as well as males, because us geeks are accepting and understanding, and we don't suffer from the mysogeny of our construction-working, sports-watching brethren.
Thanks for proving me wrong, Slashdot. Thanks for shouting out what amounts to a wolf-whistle. We can now officially start referring to females as "skirts," or "gams," or "dames," or best yet, "broads."
I fucking loved the 1950s. Let's relive them.
And now I know why there aren't more females in computer science, or IT in general.
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.
So, what, you're trolling for 11-year-old girls?
Sickos.
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.
I think I'm offended. You really shouldn't piss off that very crucial 1.7% you already have.
This is where you reply "Yes Dear. I was wrong." and buy me flowers.
(all virtual bouquets may be sent to brunelleschi@gmail.com)
Have you no respect for the Dead?
Besides if RMS looked like Jerry, EMACS would be require one less finger.
...adopted the same color scheme, citing exactly the same reasons.
The second one is the magnificent Airliners.net.
My exception safety is -fno-exceptions.
It's about time you Slashdot people accommodated your female visitors, darn it.
Hah ha.. so funny.. ha ha.. now how long till it goes away... My discust for the color is very high.
In firefox you can remove CSS by going to View > Page Style > No Style.
My suggestion for an article today: "Slashdot Chooses not to Participate in April Fools Day!!! OMGLOLBBQBRB?!?!"
Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?
Sure, but that turns of ALL of the styling, which makes slashdot pages fairly nasty to look at. My suggestion allows you to turn off JUST the April Fools style so it looks just like it always does.
Signatures are a waste of bandwi (buffering...)
It's probably possible to make a somewhat reasonable pinkscale monitor device, if you give any credance to musician/genius Wendy Carlos. Check out her oil canvas paintings.
for those who are really lazy; This is an example: this picture is made from white, black and red light alone, yet the human mind will parse it as full RGB mostly. Interesting stuff, imho.
GENERATION 26: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation.
You'll never get more women anyway. There's very little to shop for; and women don't want to learn anything; they think they already know it all. :)
are male! like omg! ima woman and i Love slashdot yall! lolhave all the scoop! i tell ppl stuff i read here and they say no way! 3 months later its happening! now they are like omg.. they cant do that can they? when i tell em stuff! so keep up the goode work dudes! just wish everyone were as accurate and thorough as yall. thanks again
into greaterthancolonleftparen. Could anything possibly be more irritiating? COL
I look at porn WITH my wife.
Sux to be you.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on