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Slashdot Keybindings, Dynamic Stories
We've been working hard on the new dynamic Slashdot project (logged in users can enable this by enabling the beta index in their user preferences). I just wanted to quickly mention that there are keybindings on the index. The WASD and VI movement keys do stuff that we like, and the faq has the complete list. Also, if you are using Firefox or have Index2 beta enabled, you can click 'More' in the footer at the end of the page to load the next block of stories in-line without a page refresh. We're experimenting now with page sizes to balance load times against the likelihood that you'll click. More features will be coming soon, but the main thing on our agenda now is optimization. The beta index2 is sloooow and that's gotta change. We're aiming for 2 major optimizations this week (CSS Sprites, and removing an old YUI library) that I'm hoping will put the beta page render time into the "Sane" time frame (which, in case you are wondering, is several seconds faster than that "Insane" time frame we're currently seeing).
The beta page is a perfect example of why I hate the new slashdot features. There are buttons all over the place with randomly coloured backgrounds and the like; it's awful. I hope none of it gets live.
The story tag is to distinguish stories from submissions and comments.
Slashdot has been looking a lot better on Lynx lately, and it renders well on ELinks as well.
I don't use those browsers much anymore, but in the early '00s I used lynx + zgv to view web comics, images, etc., and it worked quite well indeed. I don't think svgalib is well-supported anymore, though.
Does anyone know of a console-mode image viewer that works on modern systems? It'd be neat to be able to do that again.
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On some computers there is, and on some other computers there is not, a flashy green thing on the top right that has the text "green" in it. What is this?
A browser bug? Firefox extension? I don't see these.
Articles get tags. What decides which of the *many* tags that people probably give to it, appear on the front page below the article?
Seems to be the most popular n tags. I have no idea what the value of n is.
Sometimes there are tags that are so strange that I can't imagine multiple people would by chance pick that same tag, how comes it that those get picked by so many people anyway?
Tag spamming. Watch for comments that say "tag this article mrsuffleuffogus". Sometimes others will comply. In addition, some people, like this guy have sock puppet accounts. Also, I've seen /.ers collaborating on IRC/Twitter/etc. to get articles tagged a certain way or to attack a particular user.
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Agreed. WHY does it take so long for my preview to load?
Indeed. Why does it take so long for EVERYTHING to load?
My solution is simple: go into your preferences and enable "classic" mode. Aaaah, relief. No more cruft and bloat.
Click "Index Beta Settings" in your preferences and make sure "Paused" is ticked.
Error 001
Security Scan and Virus Detection do not work with your operating system.
Yes, it has been a painful migration. However, a complete rewrite of the FAQ is coming soon (with context-appropriate linkage from the rest of the site) along with a much more intuitive interface that allows for easier firehose use. You have already seen the very tip of the iceberg with this post by Rob, expect to many more things like this making the site easier to decode.
I know it hasn't been easy, but hang in there. Slashteam has some really cool stuff on the way.
Click outside the box to unpause.
I usually refresh the entire page (CTRL+R), but I tried your way (click the Slashdot logo) just now. It clears the middle column, says it's loading and then displays the stories. I've got "Paused" turned on and I'm using FF3.0.8 on Linux.
Works pretty good, actually. According to the faq, I can press G for more stories, but I'm not sure that's the same thing.
Error 001
Security Scan and Virus Detection do not work with your operating system.
well, then among the many "cool" updates on the way you will appreciate the work that is currently being expended to make low-bandwidth, small screen, iphone, etc, interfaces much less buggy and faster-loading. :)
Haha, you just figured it out without knowing it!
In my experience, it only takes long for the preview to load the first time. After that, it's instant as expected. My guess is that it has something to do with the ping-back thing I've heard of that checks if your post is coming from a shady place.
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
Try:
/. staff,
http://slashdot.org/users.pl
http://slashdot.org/users.pl?nick=harry666t
http://slashdot.org/users.pl?uid=1337
Dear
please don't take the good old users.pl away.
Agreed. WHY does it take so long for my preview to load?
Because they're portscanning the IP you're coming from. Set it to REJECT rather than DROP from Slashdot's IP/range, and you'll find it almost instant. It's pretty annoying though for those of use who've been posting for years (yeah, I know my ID isn't low - I had one that was, but stopped posting for a while, and forgot it :( ).
Get your own free personal location tracker
That's probably because they still believe that the percentage of people that visit this site from the USA is large enough to annoy all the rest of use who don't. Yes, I am trolling slightly. Slightly.
I'd actually like to see a decent survey done. Nationality, languages spoken, where currently living.
Get your own free personal location tracker
Yes there was, that's why trn was written.
(Oh I wish I still had a newsfeed... I guess I should try out one of those free newsfeeds some day..)
I tried the new index a while ago and then went back to the old one.
I'm not sure if the option to go back to the old one is still available and
I won't enable the new index to find out, in case I get stuck there.
The option should be available on the help page under Index or
Index Beta Settings (Use Beta Index checkbox):
http://slashdot.org/help
The old user page is here:
http://slashdot.org/users.pl
Me lost me cookie at the disco.
>> What I would really like is a way to block sites from doing this by default and allow a white list of sites that use the ability to use the more powerful aspects of AJAX responsibly. This probably exists and I'm sure could be created if not.
It's called NoScript, and it is a Firefox extension. You can white/black-list any site and allow or deny them from executing JavaScript. When blocked from executing JavaScript altogether, most sites fall back to a plain HTML functional state (Slashdot included, believe it or not). And those that don't, well, if they really interest me, I'll consider allowing them to execute JavaScript; otherwise, it's good riddance.
-dZ.
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