Scott Lockwood's Journal: I've stopped seeing updates from friends

Please let me know if you see this.

I see this

[Corporate Troll]

I got to my own page (http://slashdot.org/~yourusername) and I see it in the upper-right corner... It's very small. Not very intuitive.... You can however see your messages still on http://slashdot.org/messages.pl?op=list [slashdot.org]

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[Qzukk]

It's very small. Not very intuitive..

And by sticking it in a darker green gradient box inside the dark green gradient box, it has made the page even uglier than before. Good work topping the Idle layout, slashdot.

I'm beginning to wonder if all of this is the true face of the U of M "user interface" research project. It's not the ajax-iness itself that is under investigation, it's research into how ugly and unusable the site can be made before a significant number of people stop using it.

Next stop: bright

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[RailGunner]

No, the problem that it's the U of M and thus brain damaged.

They're stuck in a town named for a whore (Ann Arbor).

Michigan Sucks!

GO BUCKEYES

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[Profane MuthaFucka]

Oh how I hate
Oh hi oh state

Now everyone will know that my nurturing mother, Michigan State, is a far better school than yours.

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[damn_registrars]

And by sticking it in a darker green gradient box inside the dark green gradient box, it has made the page even uglier than before. Good work topping the Idle layout, slashdot.

The firehose [slashdot.org] is in some ways even better; I frequently get black text on a black background there. I suspect Zaphod might have helped with that decision...

the true face of the U of M "user interface" research project

Which M, and which research project? I poked around for a while and I did not find the project you mention. I found a Visible Human Project [umd.edu] at the University of Maryland, but that is quite beautiful by any measure so I can't see how any person could have mutilated that into what we now have on slashdot.

Yep.

[Shadow Wrought]

I wrote a JE [slashdot.org] about it to. Between that and the comments there's some answers...

I caught it

[damn_registrars]

But only beecause I keep slashdot.org/my/inbox [slashdot.org] open in another tab. I have the main page in one tab, and a journal search [slashdot.org] in a third.

So essentially my "slashdot window" has tabs as follows:

• Journal search
• My inbox
• Main page

I'm sure someone thought this was a good idea. Not sure who that idiot might be...

yep

[zogger]

Slashdot changed how they do it. The easiest way to go back to seeing friends updates is just open a tab with this link and refresh it [slashdot.org]

I saw it!

[nizo]

Yesssirrreeeee!

moo

[slothman32]

I assume you mean that you don't receive emails/slashdot messages when someone replies to a JE.

Thanks for the replies

[Scott Lockwood]

I *just now* noticed the box on the right, and only because it's big now for some reason.

Bizarre.

And I noticed that index.pl now redirects to index2.pl. :((

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[insanecarbonbasedlif]

I guess it's redundant now to note that I saw this JE?