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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/
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*
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HELL, YEAH, but only briefly before I scraped my eyes out of my skull with my fingernails.
Simon
Physicists get Hadrons!
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.
As strange as it feels looking at this, it still is better looking than the IT color scheme... ;)
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I hope you're selling matching panties.
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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
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.
Huh. I suddenly have this urge to collect all the Slashdot Dream-House Playsets, each sold separately.
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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.
I think I need to upgrade from this grayscale monitor.
Don't lead me into temptation... I can find it myself.
"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.
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.
Uggh...now Slashdot looks like someone poured Pepto Bismol (c) all over it.
It hurts.
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.
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!!!
Gabe and Tycho would be proud. Especially Gabe.
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 ]
True dat! I really only asked because I am a lazy beer-swilling American. Naturually I figured I could get some foreign devil to figure out if it's tomorrow anywhere in the world (isn't it always tomorrow somewhere?).
Seriously though, thanks for saving me from using my brain on Friday, much appreciated!
Karma: Incomprehensible (Mostly affected by posting at +5, reading at -1, and metamoderating everything unfair.)
I'm sorry, I was distracted.
No, it's ok, I think I'll remain seated if you don't mind, ma'am.
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All hail mother England!
Comment forecast: Bits of genius surrounded by a sea of mediocrity.
So, I think you should add a couple of unicorns. Mad science! Robots! Underwear! Cute girls! Full comic online! http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/
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Mad science! Robots! Underwear! Cute girls! Full comic online! http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/
So many commments, and yet not a single one is modded as insightful or interesting. You know it's April Fools Day.
I think it should be an automatic thing.
If somebody becomes a fulltime troll, their stylesheet is permanently locked to "omg ponies".
liqbase
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.
...but I didn't really laugh till I saw this:
[+] gay, aprilfools, ponies, pink, lol (tagging beta)
Come on, CowboyNeal, it's a dead give away.
"I wish I knew how to quit you!"
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Slashdot is what you keep loaded in the OTHER tab, in case the wife walks in and you are looking at pron.
You just switch tabs right quick, so she sees you are looking at Slashdot, which guarantees she will not have any interest in looking at the computer screen any futher. She won't even notice the other tab with the "Want to play tonight?" title.
Unless of course Slashdot has a pink ponies theme, which will actual pique her interest. Bastards.
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
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!
In Soviet Russia March 31st April 1st You.
(its a silly thread, lame old jokes are allowed)
Note that April Fool's Day, as defined by the International April Pranksters Association, goes by UTC, not by local time zones.
That's just a massive joke they play on you. It's their hazing.
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
Not so! I'm the president of the International April Pranksters Association and we define April fools day as 12:00AM-12:00PM Local Time. Don't Believe me? Then check our website. Oh, you can't find it? uhm, it's undergoing technical difficulties now No hits on google? well, that's because ... it's those damn terrorist hackers! it's the cyber-terrorists fault. damn cyber-terrorism.
I just finished filling out a trouble ticket up at Viewsonic! I thought my LCD had gone stupid! IT AINT APRIL YET!!
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.
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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.
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.
As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.
Program Intellivision!
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!
The pink! My poor retinas!
midnight to noon huh?
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.
Wait... you mean there are actually people living outside North America? You just blew my fucking mind!
TOTALY!!!
Chances are any disscution on Slashdot will degrade into a flamewar about ID/Christianity within 14 posts.
I'm a dumb blond, you insensitive clod!
It depends on your time zone. April Fools is almost over in Australia. (Do you guys celebrate AFD down in Australia?)
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