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!

Grass grows thick on a rolling stone

[BadAnalogyGuy]

Can you believe it's been 12 years on since Slashdot came into being? 12 years on and we're still getting major updates.

I gotta hand it to you guys, even when things are working, you're finding new and interesting ways to update the site. I guess this is one of the reasons it's still relevant and popular.

Re:Grass grows thick on a rolling stone

[MBCook]

Wow. 12 years. It's about time for them to give up that weird fad langauge (Perl) and use a real one that will last (COBOL).

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.

Re:My link the submission

[eldavojohn]

I noticed this a while ago when I went to post a story. Mostly, it's rather nice, but I do miss one feature:

Can it be made so that my link points to something other than my email address? I used to change it on every submission to point to my website, and actually I'd like to set that as the default.

Was there a reason that choice was removed, or was it an unintended effect/feature without priority?

Click your name in the submission and a box should appear that allows you to change it from your entered e-mail address to whatever you want.

I am having a problem with the javascript bookmarklet in Firefox 3.5.2 where it is not recognizing me as logged in when I use the bookmarklet to popup the window and submit the story. And then when I click "Log In" it takes me to a blank submission page with no data (but I am logged in). Is this a known bug? Shouldn't it grab that information and log in status from a cookie or something when I'm logged in in another tab? Aside from that, it looks really slick and I'm excited I won't have to switch between windows so much while paraphrasing articles! Well done!

Accepted, Rejected, Pending?

[Anonymous Coward]

The one thing that I miss in the new submission system is the list of Accepted, Rejected, and Pending stories after a submission is made.

Can we get the list of Accepted, Rejected, and Pending stories back?

Otherwise the new system is fine although I didn't know how to go about submitting a story under a different name or how to add a link to a web site instead of an email address until I read the post above by eldavojohn.

You may want to add that information to your FAQ.

Why can't I mod?

[slagheap]

Given the meta-topic... I'll ask this here:

Ever since Slashdot went to the "2.0" (was it?) interface where you can ajax collapse or expand posts within the normal page... I haven't ever gotten mod points.

I have "Willing to Moderate" checked, and "Good karma", but I haven't received mod points for a long long time.