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The State of Slashdot: Https, Poll Changes, Auto-Refresh, Videos, and More
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.
It's coming
All moves in the right direction. To ensure lights are staying on, how can I give you money?
and removed the "Jobs" section of the site
You're going to pay dearly for you lack of faith when HE returns to Earth save *pple yet again.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Meet the new boss: so much better than the old boss. -- The Who
Good, good, good, good, good... Wait, what is this? Positive changes, nothing to complain about?
I don't even know what to do.
Good job Slashdot, keep it up.
There might be some hiccups like this. Email feedback@slashdot.org if you find any. We will investigate this mobile posting ASAP.
Okay you know what, the changes around here--including responsiveness to user opinions--are getting really, really nice. Thank you.
Yes there are some issues here we will address soon
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.
Glad you like it. We appreciate the support
Thanks for getting rid of auto-refresh. It sucked to have the page refresh while typing or scrolling.
Be careful when you do unicode. I know that's often requested, so it'll probably be done, but be aware it makes protection from injection attacks (including sql & script) much trickier. You probably want do do encoding on output and bound parameters on input, rather than trying to filter input.
The last day or two I had error saying I was posting from an open proxy, on multiple devices and networks. It seems something went wrong with that detection- possibly detecting your own load balancer.
It's amazing what applying some focus can do in a short period of time.
Kudos.
When connecting to Slashdot, I'm now cryptographically guaranteed to be talking to (drumroll please) Dice Holdings, Inc!
So... are we being MitM'd by Dice, trying to get their old property back?
just saying thanx
Absolutely not. AC is integral part of /.
Please restore the redundant "comments" link at the bottom of the summary. If I decide after reading the summary that it's worth reading the comments, it's annoying to have to scroll back if the top link has already scrolled past.
I hope you will. Sorry for getting irritated...
When I connect to wifi hotspots in things like Coffee shops, they intercept the web access and route the connection to their "accept our stupid legal thing you didn't read".
If I connect to a https web site, this doesn't work, because the redirected endpoint doesn't present the correct cert.
So I always start by connecting to Slashdot, because it's not https. Now I'm going to have to find a different non-https web site.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
Now I can finally remove the [FUCK BETA] tag from my sig. Took only two years, but better late than never! :)
`echo $[0x853204FA81]|tr 0-9 ionbsdeaml`@gmail.com
At one point in the last couple of years, I was on the verge of bringing up the change password dialog, typing a bunch of random characters, NOT recording it and logging out. So I would not be able to log in again even if tempted.
After some consideration, rather than just give up on the site, I moved /. to the bottom of my daily links list and started focusing my time and attention elsewhere, while checking back only occasionally.
I'm beginning to be glad I didn't. Thanks for the positive changes.
The real challenge will be to get those who did give up to return and give /. another try (and then stick around).
What's that strange feeling? Why, I believe it's hope. How unusual.
Whiplash,
When the company you work for took over SlashdotMedia and therefore Slashdot, I kinda flipped out and talked a whole lot of doom and gloom bullshit. No less, I was downright mean about it. In fact, I was mean and rude to you directly. As someone who has been here since day one, I was kinda panicked about Slashdot's continuation. In turn, your replies to my flaming were level-headed and even kind. It did not take me long to realize I was wrong about all if it and apologize. After reading this, I apologize twice over.
Hey, can you find me three digit ID account? It was attached to a long gone ihatehotmail1979@hotmail.com - I know that is a long shot of a question.
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It's coming!
We've made a concerted effort to stop linking to paywalled sites. Only exception would be if its breaking news not covered anywhere else
I for one welcome my new Slashdot overloads! Thanks for the positive changes guys!
Been here a good while, come most days...guess I like the place although Dice sure did their best to ruin it.
Glad I stuck it through, and "thanks" for the positive changes.
Against the flow, (but then again, I am a BSD neckbeard), don't listen to the bunnies screaming for UTF8.
It'll increase your attack surface, hence give you a butthurt of work if you do it right, for...what?
I've never seen a funny or insightful post that would have somehow been more hilarious or intelligent if it had accents in it.
I can now say "BOMB"
I'm sure a few people will come out of the woodwork asking for removal of the Anonymous Coward account. Please do not do so. There are times when folks around here have something to say that will genuinely add to the conversation. Something that should be +insightful or +Interesting. But anyone and everyone around here knows that the culture is so unpredictable, it is sometimes safest to post as AC. Without AC, we would be missing a lot of really good comments that in fact do get modded up. There are also times when someone has something relevant to say, but do to the nature of the story and their comment relative to working for a particular institution they do not dare post otherwise. Among a number of other things. Besides, we have meta-moderation for a reason.
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You say that, but as soon as there's any code logging/recording IPs it'll need changing to handle IPv6 as well (is that field now so much longer that it has knock-on effects on other things?). And if there's any code that tries to do checks/manipulations on the addresses then you have a load more work to do as well.
Look like subscriptions is still a thing, assuming you have an account.
I just turned off AdBlock for the first time in years.
I'd argue against seeing moderation data. Yeah, I've been modded down on comments that I thought shouldn't be modded down, but I don't really need to know who did it. We have enough noise on here without people calling out others who modded them down.
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
If you don't like the comment, DONT FUCKING READ IT.
Logical fail. The only way I can tell if I like a comment or not is to read it.
I'm sick of little pussies like you with their hurt feelings blaming your Facebook "sad face" sticker situation on the ACs
You must have me confused with someone else. I don't do Facebook.
Is there an option to re-enable auto-refresh on a per-user basis? I actually appreciated that feature.
And we appreciate you whipping slash into shape, Whipslash ;)
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
OMG THANK YOU FOR REMOVING AUTO REFRESH.
That was the single most frustrating and annoying thing in the history of everything on the internet. It was worse than obnoxious ads even. The text you reading simply vanishing before your eyes and refreshing and landing in a difference spot every time and then having to find where you were at was just... urgh!!
You can tell how powerful someone is by the magnitude of the crime they can commit and be able to get away with.
I really don't want to learn yet another proprietary markup language. So can we please keep it a standards based markup instead of flavor of the month? Thanks.
Just want to say that your presence in some of these threads reminds me a lot of the old days, when Taco et al. would post about what was going on, what they were doing, even comment in stories. It's been sincerely missed, and it's a VERY welcome return.
Thanks for buying this place. It will be nice to have /. actually turn back into the awesome site that it once was. Before the dark times. Before the Empire.
What part of "shall not be infringed" is so hard to understand?
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!!!
Knowing who modded a comment makes moderation worthless. If they do that, I'm out of here. You'll never get honest moderation when the moderator has to fear retaliation.
All you'll have left is a bunch of people who agree with each other. You can lick each others' butts without me.
A few years ago (before the last buyout) /. was my main technical news source. I came primarily for the community, then for the content, and lastly for some humor at the polls. No, not reporting on current political campaign polls, although I do remember watching the politics section go live.
I want to share a little bit of my story: When I was a wee lad not yet in highschool my family got dial-up. I was so excited! The internet was new and so amazing. It was a very short time until I came across slashdot and for some reason I got hooked. I think it was the engineering humor and conversation (or perhaps jokes about a gritty Natalie Portman), but something about it stuck. This site tremendously sparked and influenced my love of technology. I'm now a successful fully-employed member of society (in an IT field no less!) and I can honestly blame ./ culture for much of my development.
I've learned services, like friends, come and go. I was active in, and then watched, Digg dissapear. I saw some of the glimmer of Kuroshin. I've piddled around in Reddit. Slashdot was always in the back there though, if sometimes only because of distantly fond memories.
I watched as certain strategic decisions ticked the "she's not going to make it jim" flag in my mind and I began to write Slashdot off. Recently however there is a new light behind the community. There is a new vibrancy. It's because you who are in charge are like us once again (one of us, one of us!). You understand that this isn't about the monies, it isn't about pageviews and numbers, it's about technologists by day who can take a few minutes to just be nerds and talk and discuss with each other. It's about having slashdot as hobby, an interest, someplace where I can hang up the coat and hang out for a while. You've started to remember that and it is showing. We, the community, see it. I feel at home here once again.
Keep up the good work - here's to hoping ./ and it's community can be a home for the geeks, the nerds, the techies and all those inspiring to be. Thanks guys, she's looking good again!
You might wanna look at what headers slashdot sends as well: https://securityheaders.io/?q=...
I'm a centrist who believes that there should be a lot of compromise, and your party currently hates compromise, so from my perspective if you're giving a "conservative viewpoint" that is the same as the Republican talking points, I'm going to down-mod for 2 reasons; it isn't actually your perspective, just party-flag-waving regurgitation, and it is probably not a reasoned viewpoint that allows other views to exist.
I down-mod people on the left for the same reason, usually from the Green Party. Democrats at least support compromise and their views don't exclude Republican views; they are openly and explicitly willing to compromise.
So I can see that depending on the actual common views in each party over time, there would be a different balance of down-mods for not being constructive, and just asserting conclusions, etc.
A lot of slashdot users are actually quite conservative, but they're not Republican Party flag-wavers and they don't regurgitate talking points. They're conservatives who still believe in compromise, in civic duty, in honesty.
What percent of modern "conservatives" will even agree that Democrats love America and love the Constitution? 1%? 2%? "They're tryin' to take er guns!" "Who?" "Them their liberaaals!" "But they say they support the 2nd Amendment too, and you can keep your guns." "FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS YOU HIPPIE!" That is basically how the conversation goes.
I had in fact been wondering for quite some time how come a technology oriented site isn't securing traffic with TLS.
Because until relatively recently (September 2013), ad networks did not support HTTPS. Thus browsers would block ads as mixed content. So in order to make the ads appear, Slashdot would redirect HTTPS visits from non-subscribers to HTTP.
Most of the time, when people say "Slashdot isn't the same as it was 15 years ago!", I reply with "You're not the same as you were 15 years ago!". Things change, and they can't always be like they were in the beginning. But this is one of those things that I miss too - having people who actually run the site comment on what's going on. And, although he probably won't see this reply due to nesting, I totally admire whipslash for diving into these threads like he/she has.
Posted from the wireless couch.
--Your efforts are appreciated. Keep up the good work :-)
--Aside: A few weeks back I wanted to get in contact with you to recommend something, but it didn't coalesce - so at the risk of going a bit offtopic I will post it here. You may want to see if you can work a deal with O'Reilly books to sell at a discount to Slashdot users. It's tech-related and would seem to be a good match for the site. Just a thought.
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== WolfriderV6 == I'm willing to admit that *I just might* be wrong... Are you??
Don't confuse "having a conservative viewpoint" with "having a conservative viewpoint and spouting bollocks", as while the two overlap, the criticism you receive is usually due to the bollocks-spouting and not the conservatism. This is patently obvious judging by the plethora of conservatives who are not regularly down-modded into oblivion. It's clearly not your being a conservative that is causing the backlash, but what you are doing with your conservatism. It's rather disingenuous to ignore the highly opinionated stance you've adopted over these last few years and simply blame everything on people hating on conservatives.
Any user on Slashdot who goes out of their way to repeatedly promote some narrative in the way you have should expect the ghosts of said narrative to follow them around.