_xeno_'s Journal: Get Me To Subscribe... Make Slashdot Look Nice!

You know what would get me to subscribe to Slashdot?

If Slashdot hired a site designer to fix the horrendous look and color scheme that Slashdot currently uses. It's actually painful. I've even had a dream about Slashdot using a nice new design, but alas, it never actually happened...

No one uses Netscape 4 anymore. Everyone has access to a better browser than that. We have Opera and Mozilla/Firebird, as well as everyone's favorite, Internet Explorer. Move into the modern web, please, Slashdot, and create a nice, visually attractive site that I don't feel the need to hide every five minutes to allow my eyes some time to rest.

Please, Slashdot, please... fix your design.

Although on a serious note, give us something more than just "ad free Slashdot" for subscribing. Honestly, I don't care about the ads. I don't really notice them anymore. Sometimes I actually am interested in the ThinkGeek ones (although I have yet to actually buy something). The *? Lame. Being able to read stories before they're "posted"? Not enough. (And limiting comments to just my friend list? No one reads this anyway, why would I want to do that?!)

Start a monthly subscription to a "nice" version of Slashdot, and then maybe, just maybe, I'll consider subscribing. As it is, there's really no reason for me to subscribe. Give a monthly subscription for a few bucks with actual reasons to subscribe (a Slashdot e-mail address, access to "special content," added functionality in the posts, infinite mod points in my own journal, anything), and then maybe I'll think about subscribing. As it is, I just don't see a reason to.

Oh, and here's an idea: stop logging me out every five page views. Fix that, and maybe I'll subscribe. I almost lost this journal entry thanks to that.

Slashdot Colors and Ads

[TPFH]

In general I prefer to have dark backgrounds with lite colored text. Say black background, white text. The last time I even bothered to try overridding colors this way there were just too many sites that would change one color, but not the other. So what would end up happening would be I would get black text with black background or white on white and text is rendered invisible.

This was also true of slashdot at the time. I haven't tried to change my colors in quite a while. An earlier version of Opera woul