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Slashdot finally has a new theme! What do you think of it?Submitted by veridicus on June 5, 2006 - 8:28am.
Awsome! 24% (164 votes) Eh... pretty good. 45% (305 votes) BORING! 9% (60 votes) Uglier than CowboyNeal 18% (119 votes) What's Slashdot? 4% (28 votes) Total votes: 676 Will we get readable fonts again?When will we be able to choose a serif font of a reasonable size? It's not the font - its too much contrast ...I thought it was the itty-bitty font as well, and was bitching about it ... then I noticed my own site uses the same size font - but I can read it! Why? Because its not lost on a glaring expanse of white. FWIW, the stylesheet has the following declarations:
But overall, the theme sux. Why not let us choose our own theme, like registered users can with postnuke? "Forced" contrast?Is it that the background is "forced" white? When I installed the themes here at Seen on Slash I removed the background color setting completely, so if you set your browser to a prefered background color you'll see it. Is that it? Or should the background be set to something off-white in the CSS? BTW, registered users here at Seen on Slash can also choose among 4 themes. Actually they're the same basic theme with different colors. I prefer blue. 2 thingsI've only been on it for a few minutes but found 2 things in particular I don't like. The "Read More" link on a story should be on the left, not all the way on the right. I realize clicking the comment count does the same thing, but I have a habit of clicking "Read More". And it's more intuitive on the left. The comment moderation is aligned right of the comment title. I like to see the moderation, but it's not natural to look all the way to the right side to read it. I think it should be below the title but only displayed if the comment was moderated. Otherwise just hide it. Plus there might be a bug. I don't see any "narrow" stories on the front page today (just title, no body). Usually I see at least 2 or 3. 124134 out of 128341984I barely even noticed since I always clicked the smaller of the x out of X comments link. But, the moderation should definitely not be on the right. Me, too; unless, of course,Me, too; unless, of course, it's missing because no one has posted yet. Another updateTonight Slashdot fixed my only two complaints. Maybe CmdrTaco saw this poll. :) Considering many people assumed their complaints were being ignored I'm pleased there was an update within 4 days. A better question:If they offered both the "new Coke" and "Classic Coke" versions of Slashdot (via profile setting) and allowed people to "change back" to the old CSS, what percentage of active readers would choose to do so? I think I'd switch back just for the old font. Mabye we'll see it in the Slashdotter Firefox Extension soonWe can only hope. Or write it ourselves and submit as a patch. Or something. Some breakagesIf people are going to be looking here, I have a few things:
All in all I absolutely love the new design, but I'm incredibly disappointed by the apparent lack of testing. Yes they doThey just have a bar on the left side now. Unless it's a bug in the CSS rendering of the browser you use. No, they don'tBlockquotes are completely broken in journal entries. Slashdot has transfered the functionality to italics (WTF?) and set blockquote tags to essentially work as line breaks.
Another issueThe titlebar for comments is completely and utterly screwed up in Firefox on Windows and Linux. Firefox is by far the most popular browser on Slashdot, so, uh... what the fuck? overall good, fonts too darn smallBasically it's a cleaner version of what they already had. So in that sense, it succeeds at its goal. However, the font size is too dang small! I'm only in my 30s; I shouldn't have to strain to read. You'd think a site that's been around as long as \. would realize that you don't muck with the default body font size. I hope they change it soon. SecondedI noticed the same thing. The most retarded thing ever, made my eyes strain until I put an override in my user stylesheet to bring it back to default size. You can also move the moderation score and the "read more" links back to the left side via CSS overrides, just make sure to change their "position" attribute to "relative" (it's "absolute" now), and then adjust "top" and "left" (otherwise it will be slightly misaligned). Also, don't forget to add the "!important" directive to your CSS rules, so they take effect. More eye strainMore eye strain, we've to go across miles of screen real estate to see ratings, colour contrasts tooooooooooo deep/ tooooooooooooo pronounced. Its bad on the eyes. Good design, though - but the colours just kill your eyes. When did Konqueror stop having good CSS support?Isn't Konqueror one of the few Acid2 browsers? Why are the nav. links screwed up? Summary of issuesIn a week or so I'll gather up all the complaints and post a list. Has anyone seen a list elsewhere? Someone's JE maybe? I stopped reading slashdotI stopped reading slashdot because of the new design. The "read more" is in the wrong place, moderation is in the wrong place, the design is wasteful in that it uses most of the space for "design artifacts", the font is pretty bad (I usually don't have problems with non-serif fonts, but this is virtually unreadable), and somehow, it feels slower i.e. heavier on the machine. Agreed, except for the following
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