Experience the New Slashdot Mobile Site

After many months of effort, today we've brought the new mobile site out of beta. Featuring an interface optimized for touch devices, we think it's a huge improvement over the old mobile interface. You'll find comments easier to navigate, the most popular stories highlighted at the top of the page, and a surprisingly pleasant interface for navigating old polls. We've also spiffed up user profiles, resurrecting and improving the friend/foe system in the process. And that's not all: we're pleased to announce that you can login to Slashdot in general using various social media accounts, so if you use Facebook or Google+ there's no excuse not to enjoy the benefits of being a registered user, without the hassle of creating yet another account. Our weblog has a few more details. As always, if you encounter any issues let us know by mailing [e-mail].

Re:Sorry, not so good

[Psyborgue]

No. It behaves like shit on mobile Chrome too.

Worthless!

[Anonymous Coward]

You IGNORED every constructive comment that people made regarding this mobile interface. You INSISTED on doing it the stupid way.

Nobody is going to use your mobile interface when it makes browsing slashdot MORE WORK than before. We can't even get full article summaries on the front page! What kind of bullshit is that?

And I think it's just wonderful how every mobile user gets a banner suggesting they switch to the much more heavily ad-strewn mobile interface. Congratulations slashdot, you've managed to create a mobile interface that is WORSE than the full site on just about every level. way to ignore your customers.

The original site is better, because:

[knarf]

1. it is faster
2. I can open a bunch of topics in new background tabs for later perusal
3. did I mention it was faster?
4. it works without JavaScript

It has one disadvantage: I have to click away a popup which asks me to use the new site, time and again...

scrolling lag

[Anonymous Coward]

The mobile site lags badly while scrolling on an Android device using chrome. Any chance of fixing this?

Needs work

[jimpop]

When following a link to /., if I answer Yes to the pop-up prompt, i get redirected to http://m.slashdot.org/ [slashdot.org] and NOT the story I was linking to

Unusably slow, UI provides no feedback

[zenyu]

When I click on something it takes forever for the UI to respond. There is no visual feedback so until I realized that the new UI was just 200x slower than the old one I clicked on the things 5-10 times thinking the clicks just didn't take the first n-1 times.

I've obviously switched back to using the desktop site on my mobiles, but there is a popup on every page load asking me to try the mobile site! Sheesh!

You need to fire the contractors involved and hire some people who know what they are doing.

Holy crap that was awful

[EmagGeek]

What the fuck were you guys thinking?

An, in general, what the fuck is going on with people designing user interfaces these days? It seems everywhere you go there's yet another abortion of a user interface.

Seriously...

Re:No thanks

[jest3r]

I third that. I don't understand why we need a dumbed down version of the site when my phone can display the full site just fine? I'v enever had a problem browsing the full site and prefer it.

Re:Do Not Want

[Unknown Lamer]

There's no evil conspiracy here (see the permissions the facebook "app" requests for example: just your name and email address); we just wanted to make it easier for people to login. I personally wouldn't use it (but I'm in the set of people who only grudgingly use facebook in the first place since everyone else is doing it), but folks immediately started using it, even without us mentioning that it existed.

Luckily, it's just an option, and will never supersede the native account system. Different strokes for different folks and insert other appropriate cliches here.

Re:Go away with this crap !

[Psyborgue]

You have to be scrolled all the way to the top of the screen to click the classic popup in mobile Chrome my Nexus. If you scroll down the popup stays on the screen but tapping it does nothing. You have to scroll back up, and then tap. It's annoying as fuck, I know.

Re:Needs work

[vroom]

Thanks for the feedback on this, will work on getting this fixed.

Re:No thanks

[Sancho]

Chrome on iOS 6.1. I've been asked over and over. Also, the cardinal sin of "redirecting from a deep link to the front page of the mobile site" was committed, apparently :(

I'm on a discussion page and I get redirected to the front page of m.slashdot.org. Horrible, horrible!

Re:No thanks

[jennyscript]

Hi, I'm a mobile dev responsible for the new app. The mobile site chooser popup is designed to go away and not reappear when you choose "Classic" but obviously you guys are not seeing that behavior. We'll get a fix out soon so the site will really remember you don't want to use the mobile app. Sorry about the extra popup in the meantime.

Re:The original site is better, because:

[TheSpoom]

I'll say it here too, your code is broken. It's not working. I get the popup on every page.

Re:m.slashdot.org Chrome on XP?

[jennyscript]

If you really want to use the mobile site in desktop Chrome you can check "Emulate touch events" in the web inspector, but it isn't officially supported so expect to see some oddities.

Re:No thanks

[nmb3000]

It's also a blank page if you use AdBlock+ with EasyList. The rule ||googletagservices.com^$third-party breaks their requirement for Google Tag Services, and they weren't bright enough to handle this failure gracefully. Same with NoScript -- unless you've allowed googletagservices.com (and I've managed to browse the web fine for over a decade without it) then it's blank-screen for you.

Pretty sad.