Experience the New Slashdot Mobile Site 384
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 feedback@slashdot.org.
Waste of expenditure (Score:1, Interesting)
Trying to keep /. relevant? Cheesy stuff like this is a waste of time/money. Invest in better editors that post stories the same day they occur. I don't enjoy reading things I saw on Reddit or Hacker News two days ago. Hint: it doesn't do wonders for engagement.
Please stop the nagging dialog while you're at it.
Thanks.
What about ipv6? (Score:2, Interesting)
A little better (Score:4, Interesting)
The old mobile site wasn't really mobile, so I guess anything is better, though it's a pretty slow and heavy site it seems. It looks to be working in Firefox for Android now, that's an improvement over the last time I used the beta.
So how long until /. wraps up the new mobile site in an app wrapper and advertises a "mobile app" for iPhone and Android like seemingly every other website out there?
Re:Do Not Want (Score:4, Interesting)
It's fucking worthless (Score:4, Interesting)
Now take that stupid popup thing that tells me to go to the mobile site. If I want to see your shitty social-web2.1-scalable-turnkey-webdesigner-solution I'll go to the god damn site myself. Whoever wrote this should be ashamed.
Re:No thanks (Score:5, Interesting)
By the way: polls don't work in the mobile theme in Dolphin: the options don't display. I think I'll keep using Classic.
Re:The original site is better, because: (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:No thanks (Score:3, Interesting)
Too funny (Score:4, Interesting)
I really wish slashdot had an api to access posts so we could calculate the exact turning point. Definitely 2013 is when the tide has shifted.
Re:No thanks (Score:3, Interesting)