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- trollenlord, on 10/12/2007, -19/+126It looks really nice. Pleasant, readable. Now they just need some content.
- emannigol, on 10/12/2007, -4/+97Meh. An improvement, but I was hoping for a more radical departure from the old design.
- Yarnage, on 10/12/2007, -12/+86It doesn't look bad but I honestly think the runner-up has a much better design. It's unfortunate Slashdot didn't let users vote on the design.
Runner-up: http://www.proximalabs.com/slashdot/redesign_big.html - tgone, on 10/12/2007, -20/+74Slashdot is professional, Digg is like High School.
I like both though. - jervana, on 10/12/2007, -6/+57Ya, looks like they just re-polished the site, not redesigned it.
- proxima, on 10/12/2007, -4/+46Thanks. I was personally a little surprised that I got 2nd, but hey, Alex's design was nice -- albeit a little too conservative for my tastes. Congrats to him!
- canadianguy33, on 10/12/2007, -2/+36Since nobody really saw my entry. Here it is in all its incomplete and incompatible glory
http://jiggit.com/slashdot/newSlashdot.htm - pinsomniac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33Give the guy credit. It's not all that bad considering the strange criteria Taco imposed on the contest. He required entries to utilize the same shade of green, same font for the header, same type of layout, etc.; I worked on a quick mock-up as well, but quickly found that you really can't do much without altering the current three-column layout. (Personally, I would've preferred that the cells in which the story excerpts were had some type of shading to distinguish it from the background.)
Congrats to the winner. - koick, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35No wonder it won, it looks VERY similar to the current layout... Blah.
- szembek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33CmdrTaco said he wasn't going to change anything radically when he started the contest. He was just looking for a bit more modern feel to the site while keeping a lot of the current theme.
- Pokelicious, on 10/12/2007, -4/+32It does look much better and has a more modern feel, but I agree its not exactly a re-design.
- zatrix, on 10/12/2007, -5/+32Yeah it just seems so "bleh I wanted to redesign but got lazy designing"
- uptown, on 10/12/2007, -9/+35Agreed about the runner-up. Much easier on the eyes.
- meatbites, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28They are both quite well laid-out and feature intuitive design, but I do agree -- the runner up is much easier to look at. I daresay it's less distractive on the main content.
The majority of the challenge was in matching the demand, as Taco didn't provide much in the way of flexibility -- wouldn't you agree? The serious contenders weren't given the option of truly wandering around with their creative juices. I must say, though, some rather clever designs came out of it.
Seeing as my design was one of the many unseen, belated entries, some hearty Digg critique would be warmly welcomed: http://zim.dreamhosters.com/slashdot/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+28Slashdot have had the 'one rounded corner thing' long before people were even aware the internet had a version number.
http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2005/12/27/web-2 - TangentThought, on 10/12/2007, -7/+29I like Peter's better. Too bad he got 2nd.
- jkaiser, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24@meatbites
"Seeing as my design was one of the many unseen, belated entries, some hearty Digg critique would be warmly welcomed: http://zim.dreamhosters.com/slashdot/"
I actually like it better than the winner. - Enitime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Because the images aren't loading properly. It has rounded corners.
This is how should look: http://slashdot.macbert.com/logged_out.html - adolfojp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21I believe That slashdot's strong points are its comments architecture and its moderation system.
Digg's comments are awful. It allows for just one level reply. For example, if somebody wanted to reply to my comment they would have to reply to yours instead. It becomes cluttered and confusing.
I think that slashdot's moderation system is superior than digg's. In digg everybody can vote all of the time. In slashdot everybody gets to vote sometimes. Because you get limited moderation points in slashdot you try to vote purposely. For example, this comment is not a troll, but diggers will mod it down because it might not be popular. In slashdot you mod something down because it is either offtopic or a troll. In digg, moderation is more like a popularity contest.
Of course, I agree with your point that slashdot could be improved with a little ajax, but, I believe that they are trying to be as cross browser compatible as possible. - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19IANAD(eveloper), but from what I understand the underlying code (CSS) is much cleaner than what's currently in use. So, while it may not look like a big redesign on the surface, it's a great change beneath.
- Palmer586, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19"Slashdot is professional, Digg is like High School."
I agree, for evidence, look at the post below's first 3 letters... - norbiu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Link to the article: http://slashdot.org/articles/06/05/30/1531251.shtml
- FCon4, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21'...I dont ever visit /. anyways. (sic)...'
Then why do you care how it's designed? - TheSoupNazi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15While it might have been nice to go with something that had a different "feel" than the current Slashdot design, I think that this new design does a great job maintaining the same "look and feel" of the Slashdot that we've grown accustomed to for years while smoothing out the rough edges to make it look a bit more modernized.
Overall, great concept brought to fruition. I like it. - jaked409, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13But I bet geeks know how to spell implement!
- rdoger6424, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14BRING BACK OMG PONIES!
- modsuperstar, on 10/12/2007, -9/+20The runner up doesn't have big sloppy fonts used in the sidebars, which definitely makes it better looking.
- Sartori, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Everyone who makes a sweeping generalisation is an idiot ;)
- jab3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13I guess I'm gonna have to go against the apparently common consensus both here and at Slashdot, but the runner-up in my opinion is much worse on the eyes than the winner. The runner-up screams green and is compressed together with a tiny unreadable font. Whitespace is nil. I don't know if the winner is the best, but it sure is easier to look at for me than the runner-up. I don't understand why everyone thinks the runner-up is more pleasing.
- vermin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Actually, the comment system is the best part of the site, as long as you know how it works. Superior to the digg comment system that's for sure.
- dhp1080, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13I agree Yarnage. http://www.proximalabs.com/slashdot/redesign_big.html seems like a lot better of a design to me. I like the new one though, it's at least a change from the dull 1990 design of slashdot.
- regeya, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I'll be contrary and say that not only do I like it, but I admire that the redesign *isn't* a radical departure. There's no doubting when looking at that that it's Slashdot, but it's much cleaner.
- got80s, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11They are both easy to read. I just use both sites b/c they both have good content and discussions. This whole competition thing of who's better, or who got the story first is so high school.
- compu73rg33k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Them words is hard to understand. Needs better grammar.
- tazamore, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Them headlines is hard to read. Needs more spacing between letters.
- allanpat, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13not really a redeisgn, more like 'lets add some bevels & gradients here and there'
- adolfojp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10How is slashdot's comment system flawed? I like its multi level comments much better than digg's one level comments.
- OutsideofDreams, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I like it, updates the current feel while retaining the most predominant elements.
- weaz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Cleaner, anyway.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9@adolfojp
I agree with you to some degree, but Digg's comment system also helps keep comments on-subject whereas /.'s tends to wander as comments become embedded. Pretty soon a great story about the cure for cancer turns into a bitch-fest about how Bush is ruining the earth. - Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8It means only X of Y Comments meet the requirements you have set up in your profile to filter out useless posts. Part of their moderation system.
- firehydra2k, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Interesting implementation. The sides kinda seems cut off, though...
- alecks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8i think that has something to do with the Threshhold level in your preferences... like.. if you want to see only 3 comments.. then 61 of them meet the criteria out of a possible 77.
But i've seen a lot of instances where that didn't match perfectly.. - alecks, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11The runner up is SOOO much better...
http://www.proximalabs.com/slashdot/redesign_big.html - szembek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8It looks decent, not sure about the READ MORE link though.
- arto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Here are the direct links to Alex's website and blog post about the win:
http://www.macbert.com/
http://summit.makalumedia.com/2006/05/30/the-slashdot-redux/ - Xeworlebi, on 07/25/2008, -1/+7Does that need explanation? It's IE...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"DAMN BIG AD" -- love it! Good job, meatbites. : )
They probably didn't like it since the menu isn't static. It's a bit too alerting onMouseOver. Still cool though. - buss, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9I agree with you there. Peter, I was hoping your design would get it. His design is here: http://www.proximalabs.com/slashdot/redesign3.html
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