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Slashdot Launches Re-Design

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the lookit-all-that-shiny dept.

Today we are pleased to announce the launch of the third major re-design in our 13.5 year history, and I don't think it looks half bad. The new theme represents a serious gutting of the underlying HTML and CSS, as well as all-new graphics. There will be many design wiggles, bug squashes, and compatibility glitches that survived testing, so bear with us for a bit. Please direct your bug reports and feedback (good and bad!) to Garrett Woodworth who is currently in charge of such things. Thanks to him, Wes, Vlad, Dean, Phil and Tim, who have each worked hard to get this out the door. Juggling the needs of users, editors, and various business functions is a hard job, and you guys did good.

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  1. This is slashdot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was sure there'd be ponies in the new design.

    1. Re:This is slashdot? by Timothy+Brownawell · · Score: 5, Funny

      ...and even better, the keyboard navigation seems to be all jacked up. It's like April come early!

    2. Re:This is slashdot? by sirsnork · · Score: 4, Funny

      And still no WYSIWYG comment box, only HTML or plain text. If I wanted to code I wouldn't be reading slashdot would I?

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    3. Re:This is slashdot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      The minimum font size thing sounds like something I'd mention to them.

      As for turning off "the ajax crap", well, we'll all just get off your lawn now... but I doubt the rest of the internet is going to oblige.

    4. Re:This is slashdot? by Raumkraut · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think you're overblowing
      the problem of narrow
      boxes to enter comments
      in. If you have a problem
      with websites not using
      all of your desktop real
      estate, perhaps you just
      need to zoom in?

    5. Re:This is slashdot? by rabiddeity · · Score: 3, Funny

      Burma Shave?

  2. The slashdot logo in the corner... by damn_registrars · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why is it so much smaller now than before? Are you hoping we'll think we are reading a different site?

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  3. Review of New Slashdot by Gothmolly · · Score: 5, Funny

    No new content.. More whitespace than before. Lame.

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    1. Re:Review of New Slashdot by zach_the_lizard · · Score: 3, Funny

      Î'm stärtîñg tð thnk ¦t wôrks if you use stuff from L©tin-1. ¾ of it seems to work. It still makes no sense (yes, I wanted to put a cent sign here, but that didn't work). O1÷1 well.

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  4. Impressed by Admiral+Lazzurs · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have to say I have always generally been impressed with the /. redesigns and this is no exception. Well done team, thanks again not just for a great site but for continuing to make it look and work better for all the users.

  5. Finally! by stox · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can get a tan while sitting in front of my monitor.

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  6. Missing one thing by pancake_lover · · Score: 5, Funny

    Overall I like it. But it wouldn't hurt to throw in a few ponies around the page. And maybe a little bit of pink wouldn't hurt.

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  7. new icons by Memroid · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can't tell if the new Microsoft icon is more or less creepy... http://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/microsoft_64.png

  8. Re:Horrible. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I love it.

    Steve.

    Sent from my iPhone.

  9. Re:Horrible. by DrJimbo · · Score: 4, Funny

    All I see are rainbows and unicodes.

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  10. Re:Horrible. by by+(1706743) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, all I care is copy/paste in Chrome seems to actually work!
    Hey, all I care is copy/paste in Chrome seems to actually work!
    Hey, all I care is copy/paste in Chrome seems to actually work!
    Hey, all I care is copy/paste in Chrome seems to actually work!
    Hey, all I care is copy/paste in Chrome seems to actually work!
    Hey, all I care is copy/paste in Chrome seems to actually work!
    .
    .
    .
    (in all seriousness, it's great to have this working)

  11. Re:History by sloomis · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is /., so you will see yesterday's new... next Friday.