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Slashdot Design Changes for Wider Appeal

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the omg-i-heart-ponies-lol dept.

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.

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  1. OMG by serenarae · · Score: 1, Informative

    OMG guys, this is so totally like OMG wow PINK!!!

    Gag me with a spork fellas. Pink is such a gross colour :P April fools? I certainly hope so...

    Us girls need to stick together! Pink is so totally last year...

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  2. Re:Dupe by mabinogi · · Score: 2, Informative

    In more than half the world actually.

    Besides, we all run our system clocks on UTC here don't we?

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  3. Re:Dupe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Well, since Baker Island and the Line Islands are 26 hours apart, it will never be april fools day for everyone in the world.

    Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zones

  4. Re:Hmm by rholliday · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, through an emergency use of the Slashdot Firefox Extension I've forced the IT scheme on the whole site. Unfortunately it doesn't get everything, but at least the comments are okay.

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  5. Re:Sir, I believe you have made a mistake by Kelson · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, no, no, the proper greeting is, "England Prevails!"

  6. How to turn the pink off by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    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.

  7. au contraire! by Phil+Urich · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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  8. Prediction by NanoGator · · Score: 2, Informative

    OMG! I predicterered this!! LOL

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  9. Re:I've just been called a fag for refreshing /. by Scarletdown · · Score: 3, Informative
    I just had a woman mutter fag under her breath after she saw my screen.


    The proper response to that would have been to give her the one-finger salute without you even looking away from your screen.

    And just off the record...

    I for one welcome our magical little equine overladies from Dream Valley. ;)

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  10. Re:Slashdot Mountain? by AntiFreeze · · Score: 4, Informative

    "I wish I knew how to quit you!"

    C-x C-c

    or :wq! if you prefer

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  11. Re:Never mind by werewolf1031 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Slashdot goes by GMT, so yeah, your time will be different if you're not in that zone. Who knew! :)

  12. Re:So this is why they finally switched to CSS by perfessor+multigeek · · Score: 1, Informative
    Dude, they created two modified logos and modified one color in the style sheets. Two hours, tops. The only thing that may have taken time was choosing just the right shade of bubble gum pink.

    Rustin(a)

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  13. Re:So this is why they finally switched to CSS by dagnabit · · Score: 2, Informative

    Uh, yeah, I get that part. The joke was that they had rewritten the entire site from the old gnarly hard-coded HTML mess to have CSS support just so that they could easily do the theme change for April Fool's...