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So D2 now remembers what you have read. This will mostly be useful to readers who use the key bindings to navigate -- we didn't really want to guess if you've read something, but if you use the WASD keys to navigate, moving on from a comment flags it as read. Read comments are slightly faded, and if you re-enter a discussion a few hours later, it should remember what you've read.
We've simplified comment retrieval as well. If you get to the 'End' of a discussion and try to get more comments (either by clicking one of the various 'More' links, or by pressing a keybinding like S or D that tells us to move on to the next comment) a dialog box will show up asking you if you would like to lower your threshold. So if you normally read at Score:4, and read to the end of the Score:4 comments, it will offer to lower your threshold to Score:3 either for all time, or just for this page. This means you don't need to constantly raise and lower your threshold to handle discussions of different sizes. This works really nicely.
Lastly is a user preference in the pref pane labeled 'Collapse Comments After Reading.' I'm actually considering making this one on by default but I'm open to feedback. It does what it says -- after you've navigated off a comment (using the keybindings again), it collapses the comment you just left. This makes it very easy to keep your place in a discussion as it grows. This is especially useful in discussions where you want to leave a tab open for several hours, or else come back later and figure out what's new.
There are undoubtedly bugs: feel free to email me or post them to the bug tracker. Thanks to pudge for hacking all this stuff too. Especially the bugs -- he wrote those first.
Hmm...guess not.
That's not the type of 'preferences' being referred to in the article.
What?! You mean we have to RTFA?
RTFM
I've generally got better things to do with my time than clicking preview, waiting, blah, etc.
Liar. I see you here on /.
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
Me thinks someone forgot to post the little "Post Anonymously" box. Don't worry, we all do that sometimes.
I wank in the shower.
FIRST post attempts, yes.
FRIST post attempts, not so much...
Your last name....Bagina...does it, by any chance, rhyme with vagina?
If so, I can understand your anger. It must really suck to live life with a name that rhymes with Vagina!
I feel your pain.
Joe Kock.
We can post anonymously? This makes trolling so much easier!!! Microsoft rules!
Note to readers: I sacrificed any potential gain in fame and fortune to make this witty response work.
I use Dvorak you insensitive clods. Sure, I know that one can supposedly change key mappings, but dammit Jim, I'm a /. reader, not a computer guru.
Similar thing it does in games...
W = Up
S = Down
A = Out Of Thread and/or Last
D = Into Thread and/or Next
But how do you fire and cycle weapons ? Mouse wheel screws up the display and clicking mostly does nothing.
It's still very buggy IMO.
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
how about you make those annoying Anonymous Coward trolls use the old discussion system? You know, as a sort of punishment for not logging in.
That'd be a reward. The real punishment would be forcing them to use D2.
"16MB (fuck off, MiB fascists)" - The Mighty Buzzard
Silly, that's not a bug, it's a FEATURE. It's a subtle hint as to which browser you should--or rather should'nt--be using ;)
This one's tricky. You have to use imaginary numbers, like eleventeen... --Hobbes
Logging in without having to navigate away from the page when replying would be nice.
So, in the old system, you hit reply, realise you aren't logged in, type in ...
Crap!
browsing the web with two hands - that could make certain sites pointless
I read slashdot directly from HTML source using vi. h-j-k-l works fine here.
Wait, fortune? You could make money reading slashdot?!
replying to undo moderation...
Why would you want to keep your other hand free when you're browsing Slashdot?
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
or you can say 'IE doesn't work well with it' if you'd like.
You only get those controls when you get mod points.
Trust me, it's a fun game.
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
- E. Debs
What's wrong with D2?
Between me and you
Omitting "R2", so brave
Is a day without
Burma Shave
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Why would you want to keep your other hand free when you're browsing Slashdot?
shake fist/cane/rake at twitter?
Stop Computers/Cars Analogies on S
I can't, it's NSFW.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
You're posting from work, too, aren't you? ;-)
When did you up the number of moderator points given out at one time? Used to be that you got 5. But today I find I have 15.
That explains why I haven't gotten mod points in the last 5 week. NOW QUIT HOGGING!
Modding Trolls +1 inciteful since 1999
That's ok. The period of "no Duke Nukem Forever" is just now only in it's infancy. So technically, you've realized that very early on.
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
That's great, it means I can keep using User Agent Switcher to fool Slashdot into displaying useful pages.
(admit it, you'd be tempted to go LOL I MOD ZONK DOWN EVERY TIME), but it could be useful later on
Only if people continue to mod Zonk down every time.
sic transit gloria mundi
Make our days more efficient? Probably could do that by flicking the power switch to "OFF" on your web servers.