Slashdot Mirror
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.
As strange as it feels looking at this, it still is better looking than the IT color scheme... ;)
Shawn's Tech Articles
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
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.
Uggh...now Slashdot looks like someone poured Pepto Bismol (c) all over it.
It hurts.
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 ]
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/
--
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 :)
"Aaaaaacccccccccckkkkk...."
Or quite possibly, Garibaldi, Sinclair, Sheridan, Delenn, Ivanova, Marcus, Dr. Franklin, Zack, Londo, Vir, Lennier, G'kar, Lochley, Lyta, Talia, Na'toth, Senator Hidoshi, Lorien, Zathrus, Corwin...pretty much everyone but Morden, and I bet even Morden said it of camera after he got all scabby:
"It's going straight to hell!"
This sig seemed like a good idea at the time....
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.
Come on, CowboyNeal, it's a dead give away.
"I wish I knew how to quit you!"
Distributed proteome folding @ WorldCommunityGrid.org
Team Slashdot - Members:#1 Run Time:#1 Points:#1 Results:#1
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)
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.
[
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...)
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...
Earn a % of cash back from Newegg, Tiger Direct, Walmart.com, and more: http://www.mrrebates.com?refid=458505
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!
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.
This space unintentionally left blank.
Do you guys celebrate AFD down in Australia?
...
No. The current gov't outlawed it last year as part of the anti-terror legislation.
But don't worry - you yanks are going to have it outlawed too, thanks to the FTA