User: whipslash

Re:How about a messaging system?

On: Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot?

Yes it's something we're considering which is why I mentioned it in the original story. Someone had mentioned it in the comments of the story about the Slashdot acquisition. It's a good idea

Re:Text Ads

On: Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot?

Good ideas. I'll take a look

Re:Put the "read more" link back, better mobile si

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Will definitely take a look at this.

Re:What's up with the system logging me out at ran

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Anyone else having this issue?

Re:Been a lurker for years....

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Just wanted to say again I'm glad you signed up.

Re:Random list

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We're going to QA the shit out of the site on every device and browser imaginable and get these issues addressed.

Re:Take Off and Nuke the Whole Site From Orbit

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That's plan B.

Re: Fix mobile

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Ok got it.

Re:make nobeta the default

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Hell yeah we do my UID is lower than your's. BRB... getting a lower UID.

Re:No more paid posts by Nervals Lobster

On: Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot?

Are these making the front page or just the popular section of the firehose? If they were making the front page I can assure you that won't be the case going forward

Re:Not enough content

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How about showing a few firehose stories on the front page that have reached critical mass in terms of popularity?

Re:Not enough content

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Anyone else into this idea?

Re:Start with removing the malware from SourceForg

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Thanks. Definitely appreciate the concerns though.

Re:There's no doubt that...

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Thanks PopeRatzo. I'm not AI unfortunately.

Re:Aim to not be Reddit, Hacker News, Stack Overfl

On: Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot?

I agree with you here. We're not going to make Slashdot a Reddit clone. I'd like your take on how we can keep the front page more timely (ie. very interesting breaking news making the front page), without relying 100% on an editor who might post it too late. Should we show some stories automatically on the front page that have reached a certain level of popularity within the firehose?

Re:Stop Auto-Refresh.

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Also something we're looking at

Re:I'd like to explore ways of helping Slashdot.

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These are great points. I may reach out.

Re:There's no doubt that...

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Oh yeah it's coming

Re:You must be new here

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Yes that's true and something we want to keep around.

Re:here is what saddened me long ago

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Performance enhancements will definitely happen. Don't worry. We're also going to scrap the intrusive ads.

Re:Slashdot Community

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We're not trying to get rid of that dynamic and I completely agree with you. Just looking to get ideas on what we should fix/improve/add (think https, unicode support, etc), and also to take the temperature of the room and see which order we should do them in.

Re:Been a lurker for years....

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Glad you're finally signed up! Mobile will definitely be addressed as soon as we can. It needs work. Very much appreciate the feedback and I'll look into native app ideas as well.

Re:It's the financial models, stupid!

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Wow. Interesting idea

Re:Fewer stories

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Thanks for the counter-point ideas. We'll take a look

Re:Just needs...

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I've reached out to him