Designer on Slashdot Overhaul Plans 469
EdwardianDandy writes "Web designer Khoi Vinh, whose firm Behavior is responsible for the redesign of the Onion, argues on publish.com that an upcoming contest to overhaul Slashdot's look will yield interesting results, but the outcome will suffer because the underlying architecture is off limits." Normally I don't post stuff "About" Slashdot here since I find meta naval gazing very boring, but this article has many good points about architecture and design, even if his whole premise is based on a contest that we haven't spent more than about 5 minutes thinking about, and is mostly just meant to be a fun way for users to contribute themes to Slashdot. If Khoi wants to enter the contest, we'll consider his designs along with everyone else's. (I'm sure we can't afford him tho). And if he (or anyone) wants to make changes more substantial than cosmetic CSS, I'd consider them too. The upcoming Slashdot Redesign contest is intended to be more about design than architecture, but good ideas are good ideas.
Her own? (Score:4, Funny)
I told you guys! Once we shaped up and went CSS the females would be all over us! I'm talking SKIN!
Naval gazing? (Score:2, Funny)
Random pattern of yellow dots (Score:1, Funny)
Several years ago (Score:2, Funny)
Now the Annapolis Grads are ready to make their move...
Re:Navel-gazing (Score:5, Funny)
Guy works hard, wants to slip out early, watch some cool ships sail around, what's the problem?
Huh?
Ignore him! (Score:5, Funny)
*bdumTSH*
Re:Naval gazing? (Score:2, Funny)
TFA says:
Without the freedom to rethink, for instance, Slashdot's comment threading, or its presentation of search results, or its topic pages, the net effect of a redesign will be considerably less impactful than one might hope forImpactful? That one ... uh ... "word" makes me think I'm not interested in seeing the type of changes the author has in mind for Slashot.
Re:The onion redesign isn't very good (Score:5, Funny)
When I pulled it up to check out the new design, my first thought was "Huh? The guy who designed this piece of shit is being quoted as an authority on web design?"
Re:Her own? (Score:3, Funny)
I never heared about that scripting language.
Re:Several years ago (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Slashdot software broken, bans entire subnets (Score:3, Funny)
This happened to me. I couldn't post to Slashdot for about a year - I think anyone using Telefonica in Spain was banned, which is pretty much anyone in Spain. I emailed Slashdot about it but got no reply.
Actually I was pleased because it stopped me wasting so much time posting rubbish to Slashdot. Damn you Slashdot for banning me! And damn you for not banning me now!
Comment removed (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The onion redesign isn't very good (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Slash Light (Score:1, Funny)
Whatever Slash does, it had better do it quick, and it had better stop sucking.
Re:Slash Light (Score:5, Funny)
Only if you're colorblind. If you think that purple color in the Games section is easy on the eyes, I'm sorry, but I think you need to see an optometrist immediately.
I wish the ads were only obtrusive... (Score:5, Funny)
The new site is a disaster, and it's all about generating revenue through obtrusive ads.
So a couple years ago I was working in London and I was given a laptop to use by my employer. I decided to download the onion to read offline while riding the train home from work one day. Turns out the page wouldn't render because of a reference to a 3rd-party adserver graphic I hadn't downloaded. To fix it, I opened up my editor and was removing these ad tags from the code. Next thing I know, a man grabbed my laptop off my lab and bolted out of the train.
Apparently, the Onion REALLY wants you to see those ads and has implemented some pretty excessive means of enforcement.
Seth
Re:The onion redesign isn't very good (Score:5, Funny)
\!!/
-AD-cntnt
cntnt \!!/
cntnt -AD-
cntnt
\!!/ cntnt
-AD- cntnt
What? Who doesn't appreciate the artfull design and delicate balance of subtle content decorted with blindingly colorful and flashy ads?
Re:Slash Light (Score:4, Funny)
How soon we forget...
Quick, someone post a goatse link.
Re:Slash Light (Score:3, Funny)
Let's test this, shall we?
"I think Slashdot's site should look more like Microsoft's!"
It's the Iron Law, not hypocrisy (Score:3, Funny)
It's still a good point. A spelling error can jolt some people just as badly as a ringing telephone interrupting a coding session.
Re:Slashdot software broken, bans entire subnets (Score:3, Funny)
I wish the braille were only obtrusive... (Score:1, Funny)
Now that's just mean. Stealing a blind person's laptop.
Re:Slashdot software broken, bans entire subnets (Score:3, Funny)
-Rick