Slashdot Keybindings, Dynamic Stories

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday March 30, 2009 @03:00AM from the we're-still-here dept.

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).

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Re:Sane/Insane referring to pages or posts loading by El+Lobo · 2009-03-30 03:42 · Score: 0, Troll

Thank you for making a simple "news for nerds" site more and more bloated and dysfunctional with any new release. Feel free to mod me a troll for expressing my most sincere opinion.
Yours truly

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My lawn by JCSoRocks · 2009-03-30 04:21 · Score: 0, Troll

Get off of it.

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