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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.
If they are 98.3% skewed towards males, where is all the front page pr0n?
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Well, my logic might be off but since it's long past midnight here and the dateline is west of the US, I suspect everywhere except North and South America.
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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 :)
they just want to show off thier (recent) css :x
I heard that Linus and Richard might try to sneak in! They're sooooo cute! *SQueaL!*
Have you seen "Richard"?
Don't get me wrong, we owe RMS for the GPL and more, but you have to admit, he looks Jerry Garcia after an all nighter.
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I always figured Richard Stallman, Alan Cox, and Alan Moore should do a seminar together, if they can find enough intersection between Free Software and comic books. Or maybe magic. Sometimes source code does end up looking like arcane incantations.
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!
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...)
Except for, possibly, mine. I wonder if this counts as "insightful".... oh well, fuck it.
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Oh man, I can't believe that worked. =D
You would THINK an uber-UNIX-geek slashdot reader would think in terms of UTC....
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...I actually kinda like it, too... Certainly a change. ;)
Keep it as an option for us weirdos, perhaps?
"Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you."
Considering the fact that /. is based in the United States I fail to see how being North American-centric in this case as being "silly".
I agree, it's not silly at all. But it is silly to assume that North American time is the only reasonable choice.