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The Far Future of Our Solar System
An anonymous reader writes "Sure, the Universe is expanding, the galaxies are accelerating away from one another, and it's looking more and more like they'll never re-collapse. The timeline of the far future looks pretty grim on large scales. But what's to come of our Solar System: of the Earth, our Moon and our Sun? This tour of the far future of the Solar System, scaling the timescales to the Big Bang being '1 Universe year' ago, puts it all in perspective."
A more pressing matter is the future of Slashdot. It doesn't look particularly bright, especially after being forced yet again to use the goddamn beta site.
The beta site seriously needs to go. It is just plain bad. Everything about it is bad, bad, bad.
The problems with it are obvious. The appearance is hideous. It's far slower to load for me. The ability to hold discussions has been absolutely destroyed. The story images are pointless and too fucking big. The fonts are all frigged up. The comment reply popup has a broken layout.
Forget the future of our solar system. Slashdot won't have a future if this beta site goes live. It'll be like Digg v4 all over again. Yet another vibrant community destroyed due to half-assed, hipster-inspired "web design". Please don't let this happen! Please toss the beta site into the rubbish heap, where it belongs!
Give or take an epoch.