Updated Slashdot Story Submission Bookmark

We recently redesigned the Submission Form to make it (hopefully) a little easier for you to shovel news our way. The new system also will allow you to tag your submissions. A reminder that you can participate in rating stories and filtering spam from the recent submissions page. And by bookmarking this convenient bookmarklet you can submit stories from the comfort of whatever web page you are browsing.

Comments

Javascript

[sopssa]

It's certainly better than the old already aged one, but was the section listbox taken completely off? However I must admit it's probably better to let authors choose it, it was always messy anyway.

And *I know* this news will get officially buried into bitching about non-working javascript on other sections of slashdot!

Re:Javascript

[bughunter]

Two points, and a meta:

First: I've used this form a few times for submissions in the past few weeks, and I miss the section dropdown, also. While I recognize the elegance of using tags, what's missing is an indication of which tags are going to result in which story icons.

Second: Once a tag is entered, I don't see a way to delete it (in case I change my mind or make an error). If there's a way to delete a tag, it's not obvious. Tag deletion isn't a necessity on the front page, but when I'm composing and editing a submission, I need tag editing privileges, too.

Lastly: how is the parent redundant? It's the first on-topic post?

Re:Grass grows thick on a rolling stone

[Abreu]

12 years and still no decent unicode support

Re:Grass grows thick on a rolling stone

[TheRaven64]

12 years and no decent unicode support is depressing. 8-10 years and decent unicode support, then no decent unicode support two years later is just embarrassing.

No Thanks.

[ddillman]

I quit submitting things to Slashdot when it became apparent it would take a minor miracle to get anything accepted, while others routinely get pushed to the front of the queue, even on the same news items. Slashdot has moved away from it's early user-centric concept into a commercial news aggregator where only major players have easy submission access.