System Downtime, Maintenance 370
When I originally "designed" (I use the term loosely since evolved is more accurate) the system, "Sections" were meant to be for "Data Types"... for example "Book Reviews". A book review is fundamentally different than a Slashdot "Article" because it has extra fields like the ISBN code. At the same time I essentially coded "Skins" because each "Data Type" needed custom look & feel type stuff so that the story could actually display the unique data fields.
So when we created YRO and the BSD section and later on the Apple section, I just reused the skinning part of "Sections".. it was the easiest way to do it, but it created problems later: under the old design a story could only have one "Section"... some sections defined "Data Type" and others defined "Subject Matter" (like Apple or BSD)... thats why bsd.slashdot.org can never include a book review, and apple.slashdot.org can't include an 'Ask Slashdot'. This confounded users of our search page to no ends, to say nothing of frustrating editors who couldn't include topical stories within their appropriate section.
Undoubtedly we'll see some bugs to pop up... so please be patient and submit bug reports. We'll be wacking bugs for a few days... there's always a few of them that don't pop up until you put them in front of the half a million users on the real hardware. Thanks for understanding!
Isn't tonight Stargate Atlantis? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Question.... (Score:3, Informative)
UK TIME != GMT.
First Bug? (Score:2, Informative)
I know what one of the changes was! (Score:4, Informative)
( Read More... [example.com] | science.example.com )
( Read More... [example.com] | 91 comments | yro.example.com )
And so on...
- JoeShmoe
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Re:How about upgrading to valid html? (Score:5, Informative)
Migrating a whole site to XHTML is much, much harder than doing a mockup of one page.
Re:How about upgrading to valid html? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:XHTML Compliance? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:9 eastern? (Score:5, Informative)
yay Taco (Score:4, Informative)
Re:9 eastern? (Score:5, Informative)
I think the grandparent poster just encountered somebody who was lying about being unable to process the cancelation so that they'd be given a save in order to boost the numbers. I don't think top-level management would approve of such a tactic, but it's certainly possible a mid-level manager would "look the other way" about his "star performer"...
Re:Can't (Score:3, Informative)
Here I am in FreeBSD using Firefox
I go here
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/do
I get this message
Macromedia Flash Player Download Center
We are unable to locate a single Web player that best matches your platform and operating system.
Please visit our table of recommended Web players.
Please go read this page
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/al
and revise your opinion on the ubiqity of Flash
Re: "Saves" (Score:1, Informative)
Strange coincidence huh?
API published for talking to girls! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:How about upgrading to valid html? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:9 eastern? (Score:3, Informative)
Actually, they could do pretty much everything. Interactive menus? Not desirable in the first place, but easy enough to do with CSS if you really want to. Strongbad could be done with any movie format, and needn't be in Flash. The only part of the site that doesn't really have an option at the moment is the interactive games. Yes, there are alternatives to Flash for that (Java, SVG, etc.) but none of them are ubiquitous enough to be a valid choice at the moment. Maybe in a few years, but not now.