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The 100 Best Tech Products of 2006
prostoalex writes "You've read about the 25 worst tech products, now it's time to check out a list of the 100 best tech products of 2006 from the same publication. PC World named Intel Core Duo, AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core, Craigslist.org, Apple iPod Nano and Seagate 160GB Portable Hard Drive the best tech products of this year."
Should we nominate the new Slashdot CSS layout for the 2007 best awards?
I dunno, I kind of am longing for the old look. I think the colors are lighter or something. It doesn't feel right anymore.
It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.
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I see it too. It's still chops my name down to "Darkmeerka" in the user menu, though...
It seems more "plasticy" to me, I guess. I kind of like it. Reminds me of this comic.
I think some sort of warning would have been nice, I spent 3 minutes reloading before I figured out my browser wasn't hosed.
I think this new layout would not be on the top 100 list...
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I like it, but the nested comments aren't indented enough.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
The new layout looks too much like every other site out there. The old slashdot was simple, the new one is generic.
Also, the comments in nested mode don't indent as deeply as they used to, so it's harder to see the difference between the different levels of nesting. They should fix that.
No way! My vote would go for a "OMG PONIES!" version of this layout... Really, pink would look perfect on this one... *giggle* OMG!
is it really that different? looks like everything is in the same spot to me.
the functionality is identical - but I admit, it is kind of like a new pair of shoes. They look awesome! but they are a little stiff until you walk around in them for a bit.
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Also it makes slower to browse in old machines. I want the old /. back.
yes I believe I could learn to like this ...
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I think it'll take a bit of getting used to... but I think the "read more" links back on the front page should move back to their old location. There was a bit of a shock when I couldn't find it at first. I don't think this is a "wait 'till you're used to it thing" because my cursor tends to hang out in the middle of the screen, so the links used to be closer to their common position.
i like the header the footer, but the nav and main body just look to fake and dont flow at all :(
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Seriously guys, maybe the old CSS needed to be changed, but this is a hell of a lot worse. It's hard on my eyes, hard to read, way too generic, and looks like it was based on Windows Vista. Come on. Can we the readers of Slashdot PLEASE have a way to switch back to the old CSS if we choose? I've been quite a longtime reader of Slashdot, but if this new design is kept with no way to switch, I'm going to quit reading Slashdot. I don't really know where I'd get my tech news from, since Slashdot is the best, but this design is absolutely horrible and makes my eyes ache (quite literally). Nastily clashing colors too... Yuck, did the guy who made this ever take a design class? OK I'm ranting now. But before I got modded down, ket me please as for some way to switch back! -Dash
I'm going to get out of this place alive, even if it kills me!
Where can I file bug reports on the new layout? I've already found a few easy to fix CSS problems.
Waaaaah, Waaaaah, I want it back like it was this morning. Waaaaah :-)
I like it, I can learn to love it but for gods sake please bring back the "Click here to read more" link.
After using it more, I have a couple other suggestions (or complaints, depending on what tone you want to read it in):
* If you are on a page that doesn't have much content (e.g. the page with *just* this post until someone replies to it) the footer rides too far up, at least running with a height of 1200. (Looks like it'd be the same in 1280x1024 by my estimation.) There should be more vertical space added so that there isn't a couple inches of black at the bottom of the screen; it's distracting.
* No "parent" link when you're replying to a post. I'm pretty sure there used to be one 'cause I went for it instanctively. (So if you wanted to see the parent of the post you're replying to you could get to it with one link, as opposed to two (opening the comment you're replying to directly via the #15469727 link, then parent).)
* Another poster mentions that if you click the sidebar links too fast then the arrows can get out sync with whether the menus are up or down. Minor issue I think, but one someone should take a look at eventually.
* Did there used to be ads above the header? I never noticed them before if so. They'll probably fade from consciousness though. (When I used Opera I would go for a couple months without realizing there were ads. I'd then notice them, be like "oh yeah!" then forget about them the next day for another couple months.)
* I agree with the other posters that the score for comments being right-aligned makes browsing harder. (This *might* be a 'get used to it' thing.)
* There's what I consider an indentation bug. If a comment with a score above the current threshold for showing the full comment is a parent to a comment with a score below the threshold, the indentation is almost non-existant. I posted a screenshot of such a configuration. (I don't want to link to one because moderations can change.) I don't think this is a "get used to it" change.
* I also don't like the spacing between comments. (Assume that all comments in this aren't displayed; you just see the title.) If a top level comment has children, there's a significant space following the last child. But if it doesn't, there's no space. Again, a screenshot (and hastily added and barely-readable comments) shows what I mean. At a glance, it looks like that chunk of four comments in the middle are all part of the same thread. I don't think this is a "get used to it" change.
I don't want to sound too negative, because I think the change is okay overall, but it's harder to find nitpicks than it is things that are good. Though I can say I like the arrows that appear over the links on hover in the nav bar to the left.
I expected the super ultra duper new Expandable Comment Tree !!!
Where is it ???
(and I know about greasemonkey, but this should be here for all browsers to use)
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Doesn't change the fact that the change in the blockquote tag rendering broke my ASCII sig. Just look at it now!
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The font is horrid - its tiny and not nearly as readable as the old one, at least not on Firefox/WinXP.
/. learned "just cram it down their trhoat" from Microsoft's marketing bag of tricks).
There is far too much whitesapce - makes for inefficient scanning.
And the scoring for the comments is WAY over on the right - needs to be back on the left.
Whoever picked this font and this size should be beaten to death with a dead Mac powerbook.
At least give us the option to go back to the old setup (seems
I had some things set just the way I like them, and it was quick to load as well. Give me the option of getting back theold stylesheets. Or someone do a greasemonkey script.
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