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posted by LaminatorX on Thursday February 20 2014, @04:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-so-meta-even-this-acronym dept.

jcd writes:

"I'm rather excited to get going with Soylent and to watch it grow. Nay, help it grow. I have lurked in /. for more than a decade (note: I'm not the same username over there, I know, how sneaky), and always wished I could have been involved with the beginning. So this is a great opportunity, and I joined as soon as I saw what Soylent was doing. Not to mention the fact that I felt right at home with the old style. It's very comfortable.

So here's a question for everyone. Are we going to be the same as slashdot? A clone that focuses as entirely as possible on tech related news? Or will we branch out to other topics? I'm interested to see either way. I posted a comment to this effect in one of our two existing polls, and it may be a community-wide assumption, but I do think it merits a discussion."

 
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  • (Score: 0) by chris.alex.thomas on Friday February 21 2014, @06:09AM

    by chris.alex.thomas (2331) on Friday February 21 2014, @06:09AM (#4197)

    whilst I think it's good that we've got a discussion going on the new soylent website, I think we ought to take a step back from the slashdot beta reaction and find out what the problem was.

    the basic fact is that the slashdot website looks old, worked ok, but shabbily and could do better now other people might have a chance to do that

    the beta slashdot, didn't listen to the people who were giving good ideas, I agree that a open space, or as I call it, wasted space layout just makes it harder to go to the nuggets of information that I really come here for.

    but here is the rub, you CAN develop a responsive, modern website layout without killing everybody in the process, you just have to know what you're doing, unfortunately the guys at slashdot took a "Gnome Team" approach and just did what the hell they wanted.

    But if we modernised the ui, without sacrificing the ease of use, without forcing everybody to use javascript for those who have it turned off, without putting 20px of space everywhere just to look "clean and fresh" then we might actually stand a good chance of doing something great.

    what I would suggest is a design competition, we all hated the beta slashdot, so ok, lets make a zone on this website where we can contribute to improving soylent and put up suggestions, if designers are present, please try to visualise or conceptualise those ideas and upload the resulting artwork, then we should try to work towards getting the highest voted ideas implemented.

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