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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*
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
As strange as it feels looking at this, it still is better looking than the IT color scheme... ;)
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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
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.
I think I need to upgrade from this grayscale monitor.
Don't lead me into temptation... I can find it myself.
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.
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!!!
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 ]
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.
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)
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!
Wait... you mean there are actually people living outside North America? You just blew my fucking mind!