That's the purpose of this post. To better understand what the "old farts" want. No glitzy changes are in store. Just solid bug fixes and obvious feature improvements that are brought to our attention.
That's a good point and something we will look at. Should we weight firehose voting more heavily so that highly voted stories make the front page regardless of an editor?
That's being fixed as we speak. In fact, we've removed the DevShare program altogether already. Now we're working to remove bundled installers added by the project owners.
We're going to do our best. That's why we want to hear from you all first so that we build the features and improvements you guys want to see. We're not here to slap more and more ads on the site just to make ends meet.
Good stuff. Will look at all of this. Look out for a story soon asking users for feedback that we will use as our master list. However, I've noted this.
My point is we are going to improve features that users want improved, rather than hoist a whole new Slashdot on people that ruins the original spirit of Slashdot. We will be posting a story soon asking for user feedback to get it into a master list and then go from there.
This is really the "new boss"/steward. Check the earlier confirmation of my tweet @loganabbott. I'd post the link again but I'm on mobile. I've got a big doc with all your suggestions and we'll do a story this week to collect more feedback. Rest assured we're listening
This is a bizarre submission. Trump, while dominating the press and being divisive, probably doesn't even crack the top 20% of the "hate" spewed on Twitter. If Twitter isn't going to block known terrorist sympathizers they probably won't block Trump.
I think a Firehose 2.0 is a good direction to go in. Give more control to the users, who are undoubtedly more insightful in aggregate than any other mechanism we could employ.
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Noted. We'll take a look at the scripts
Noted.
https is coming
That's the purpose of this post. To better understand what the "old farts" want. No glitzy changes are in store. Just solid bug fixes and obvious feature improvements that are brought to our attention.
By "tinkering" we're aiming to fix bugs, and add oft-requested features (https) etc. We're not trying to reinvent Slashdot here.
Lol
Ok noted.
Check the department.
This is 100% already on our list.
Can you give me an example of this?
That's a good point and something we will look at. Should we weight firehose voting more heavily so that highly voted stories make the front page regardless of an editor?
That's being fixed as we speak. In fact, we've removed the DevShare program altogether already. Now we're working to remove bundled installers added by the project owners.
We're going to do our best. That's why we want to hear from you all first so that we build the features and improvements you guys want to see. We're not here to slap more and more ads on the site just to make ends meet.
There we go
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Good stuff. Will look at all of this. Look out for a story soon asking users for feedback that we will use as our master list. However, I've noted this.
My point is we are going to improve features that users want improved, rather than hoist a whole new Slashdot on people that ruins the original spirit of Slashdot. We will be posting a story soon asking for user feedback to get it into a master list and then go from there.
Yes we are fixing that today.
Thanks!
Good idea. Adding it to the list.
This is really the "new boss"/steward. Check the earlier confirmation of my tweet @loganabbott. I'd post the link again but I'm on mobile. I've got a big doc with all your suggestions and we'll do a story this week to collect more feedback. Rest assured we're listening
This is a bizarre submission. Trump, while dominating the press and being divisive, probably doesn't even crack the top 20% of the "hate" spewed on Twitter. If Twitter isn't going to block known terrorist sympathizers they probably won't block Trump.
I think a Firehose 2.0 is a good direction to go in. Give more control to the users, who are undoubtedly more insightful in aggregate than any other mechanism we could employ.
Right- that's what I'm getting at. Just weighting community voting more heavily.
Currently working on Slashdot Gamma.... jk