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Facebook To Buy WhatsApp
Facebook has announced an agreement to buy WhatsApp, the mobile messaging platform used by over 450 million people. The deal involves $4 billion in cash and an additional $12 billion in Facebook stock. They say WhatsApp will remain independent; its headquarters won't move, and it will continue to exist separately from Facebook's Messenger app. Mark Zuckerberg indicated they will focus on growth: 'Over the next few years, we're going to work hard to help WhatsApp grow and connect the whole world. We also expect that WhatsApp will add to our efforts for Internet.org, our partnership to make basic internet services affordable for everyone.' On WhatsApp's blog, they say, "Here’s what will change for you, our users: nothing. WhatsApp will remain autonomous and operate independently."
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The only thing worse than beta is all these anti-beta's out there.
Fine, support both classic and beta and ask users to choose which one they want as default. Betcha, over 90% would choose classic.
IMO, beta is crap and needs to scrapped. What is needed is enhancements to slashdot design, not a complete overhaul.
BTW, today's google homepage seems to be just an enhancement of its 1998 design, not a complete redesign like beta. Google homepage just uses modern sanserif typefaces today (instead of serif fonts in 1998). The page layout is the same as 1998. The logo is the same but improved using photoshop. The ugly green background table at the bottom is gone -- that's the only change.
In this thread: http://meta.slashdot.org/story... it is pretty obvious, that not only the "fuck beta" people are pissed.
Yes, which Dice acknowledged, so it's pretty damn stupid to get worked up about it before the software comes OUT of Beta. There was a Beta, they have feedback - now the next step is changes based on Feedback.
Slashdot users of all people should understand the software lifecycle!
Yet instead we get moderated up ads for someone else's poor Slashdot clone? Screw that.
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