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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.
Similar thing it does in games...
W = Up
S = Down
A = Out Of Thread and/or Last
D = Into Thread and/or Next
Well go click on your preferences and then go click on classic layout. It's the first option in preferences.
That which does not kill me only postpones the inevitable.
It doesn't work at all if you have Firefox set to automatically search for text when you start typing.
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Clear your cache. It worked for me the last time I got that message.
Did you guys even try to use HJKL?
It works perfectly for me.
I'm pretty sure that quite a while back one of my moderations was meta-modded as stupid (or whatever, I can't be bothered with meta anymore) and I got an email for it and the user in question lost (or regained) the point. I don't think that Slashdot really needs to hand out gold stars for doing a decent job of moderating.
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
From the FAQ:
"Currently, D2 is not supported in IE6- since these days only 10% of Slashdot readers use IE6, and that population is shrinking daily, we don't intend to work on compatibility."
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I wholeheartedly agree with you. This is less useful than it was before, and would be a great improvement.
However, as a better workaround, note that the following works:
1. Hit reply, realize you aren't logged on.
2. Open the "log in now" link in a new tab. Switch to that tab and log in on that tab.
3. Return to the original tab, type out your reply.
4. When you hit the preview button, it updates you as logged in.
This way you don't have to navigate back and find the post to reply to. As you said, it would be much easier if the log in boxes were right here on the same page.
It doesn't hurt to be nice.