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The State of Slashdot: Https, Poll Changes, Auto-Refresh, Videos, and More

Posted by whipslash on from the make-slashdot-great-again dept.

As of yesterday, Slashdot now serves over https. In addition, the polls have been moved exclusively to the right rail, and will not show up with the other stories any longer. We've also disabled auto-refresh, and fixed various issues with search and other features. In the last few weeks, we've also discontinued videos, and removed the "Jobs" section of the site. You can follow all of the changes on the Slashdot blog.

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  1. Re:Where's my UTF8? by whipslash · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's coming

  2. Re:Can't Post by whipslash · · Score: 4, Informative

    There might be some hiccups like this. Email feedback@slashdot.org if you find any. We will investigate this mobile posting ASAP.

  3. Congratulations, thats a big step by vivaoporto · · Score: 5, Informative

    Congratulations to the new team, thats a big step towards keeping their loyal audience regaining goodwill among the tech crowd.

    The quality of the improvements and the effort of the new team is visible, it even gets an A on ssl quality test.

    Good job and don't rest on the laurels, get working on the Unicode support because that's one of the missing features.

  4. Re:Disable Anonymous Cowards... by sinij · · Score: 4, Informative

    Absolutely not. AC is integral part of /.

  5. Re:Where's my IPv6 by whipslash · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's coming!

  6. Re:Nice Changes For Sure, But...... by whipslash · · Score: 4, Informative

    We've made a concerted effort to stop linking to paywalled sites. Only exception would be if its breaking news not covered anywhere else

  7. Re:Do Not Disable AC by whipslash · · Score: 5, Informative

    We are not disabling AC

  8. Re:Where's my UTF8? by doconnor · · Score: 4, Informative

    Look like subscriptions is still a thing, assuming you have an account.

  9. I call bullshit. by Chas · · Score: 5, Informative

    I am consistently modded down for having a conservative viewpoint. I generally don't even log-in anymore because when I do post a conservative viewpoint, my inbox is shortly after filled with "fu republican" type posts.

    Funny. I've been posting as an evil, stealing-candy-from-babies Republican here for years (Note the nominally low UID? Yeah, that long.).

    I can think of maybe, MAYBE one or two rude messages I've received from fellow users over the years.
    And my karma's quite good...

    So...Unless you're posting some absolutely whack-job stuff, I call bullshit.

    --


    Chas - The one, the only.
    THANK GOD!!!
  10. Re:Where's my IPv6 by repvik · · Score: 4, Informative

    You might wanna look at what headers slashdot sends as well: https://securityheaders.io/?q=...