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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
HELL, YEAH, but only briefly before I scraped my eyes out of my skull with my fingernails.
Simon
Physicists get Hadrons!
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.
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.
Take the Dragon Survey
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.
The opinions stated herein do not necessarily represent those of anybody at all. Deal with it.
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.
So this is slashdot's "NO YOU" to April 1st?
From now on, I buy only Intel.
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.
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
Uggh...now Slashdot looks like someone poured Pepto Bismol (c) all over it.
It hurts.
In more than half the world actually.
Besides, we all run our system clocks on UTC here don't we?
Advanced users are users too!
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!!!
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.
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 gonna have to start dotting my eye with a heart! Hee!
I'm not a geek, I'm just a clever script.
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! --
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/
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 :)
So many commments, and yet not a single one is modded as insightful or interesting. You know it's April Fools Day.
they just want to show off thier (recent) css :x
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.
Try date -u and you will see that it is in fact April Fool's Day.
Note that April Fool's Day, as defined by the International April Pranksters Association, goes by UTC, not by local time zones. Because IAPA is not widely recognized as an international standards body and many people's problems to understand time zones, this has led to some problems since its introduction in 2002. It is especially uncertain for regional publications, which are reluctant to adopt the new standard because they fear to irritate their audience.
One example is the Hubsborough Gazette, which famously spread confusion on the evening of March 31st, 2004 (EST) when an article claiming that aliens have attacked the Whitehouse appeared on their website. Despite the seemingly obvious nature of the hoax, many believed it and called the authorities or local clergery for guidance. One family even is reported to have spent two weeks in their backyard bunker. Since then, the editor has announced that they will only publish April Fool's articles during the hours when April 1st of their local time zone and UTC overlap, and take down articles afterwards. Many publications have followed their example in the following years.
Slashdot, which serves an international audience, of course sticks to the IAPA standard -- maybe in a (presumably failed) attempt to beat Digg at least once a year.
Actually, he is kind of cute. Sorry to stab your joke, but I am a known connoisseuse of such things.
I'm not a geek, I'm just a clever script.
...but I didn't really laugh till I saw this:
[+] gay, aprilfools, ponies, pink, lol (tagging beta)
It's tommorow in Europe? Can someone over there send me some stock pricea?
Interestingly they're all the same as yesterday.
Come on, CowboyNeal, it's a dead give away.
"I wish I knew how to quit you!"
Distributed proteome folding @ WorldCommunityGrid.org
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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)
No, no, no, the proper greeting is, "England Prevails!"
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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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...)
Rotors: S L A
Stecker-board: SH DO TX
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Why is it that when you believe something it's an opinion, but when I believe something it's a manifesto?
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'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 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.
Except for, possibly, mine. I wonder if this counts as "insightful".... oh well, fuck it.
I'm a pretty purple pony, flippity-flop, flippity-flop, such a pretty pony, flippity-flop, flippity-flop. I like to have my hair brushed, flippity-flop, flippity-flop...
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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?
OMG! I predicterered this!! LOL
"Derp de derp."
TOTALY!!!
Chances are any disscution on Slashdot will degrade into a flamewar about ID/Christianity within 14 posts.
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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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.
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.