Experience the New Slashdot Mobile Site

After many months of effort, today we've brought the new mobile site out of beta. Featuring an interface optimized for touch devices, we think it's a huge improvement over the old mobile interface. You'll find comments easier to navigate, the most popular stories highlighted at the top of the page, and a surprisingly pleasant interface for navigating old polls. We've also spiffed up user profiles, resurrecting and improving the friend/foe system in the process. And that's not all: we're pleased to announce that you can login to Slashdot in general using various social media accounts, so if you use Facebook or Google+ there's no excuse not to enjoy the benefits of being a registered user, without the hassle of creating yet another account. Our weblog has a few more details. As always, if you encounter any issues let us know by mailing feedback@slashdot.org.

Comments

Re:Sorry, not so good

[Psyborgue]

No. It behaves like shit on mobile Chrome too.

The original site is better, because:

[knarf]

1. it is faster
2. I can open a bunch of topics in new background tabs for later perusal
3. did I mention it was faster?
4. it works without JavaScript

It has one disadvantage: I have to click away a popup which asks me to use the new site, time and again...

Needs work

[jimpop]

When following a link to /., if I answer Yes to the pop-up prompt, i get redirected to http://m.slashdot.org/ and NOT the story I was linking to

Re:Do Not Want

[Unknown Lamer]

There's no evil conspiracy here (see the permissions the facebook "app" requests for example: just your name and email address); we just wanted to make it easier for people to login. I personally wouldn't use it (but I'm in the set of people who only grudgingly use facebook in the first place since everyone else is doing it), but folks immediately started using it, even without us mentioning that it existed.

Luckily, it's just an option, and will never supersede the native account system. Different strokes for different folks and insert other appropriate cliches here.

Re:No thanks

[jennyscript]

Hi, I'm a mobile dev responsible for the new app. The mobile site chooser popup is designed to go away and not reappear when you choose "Classic" but obviously you guys are not seeing that behavior. We'll get a fix out soon so the site will really remember you don't want to use the mobile app. Sorry about the extra popup in the meantime.

Re:No thanks

[nmb3000]

It's also a blank page if you use AdBlock+ with EasyList. The rule ||googletagservices.com^$third-party breaks their requirement for Google Tag Services, and they weren't bright enough to handle this failure gracefully. Same with NoScript -- unless you've allowed googletagservices.com (and I've managed to browse the web fine for over a decade without it) then it's blank-screen for you.

Pretty sad.