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].

Waste of expenditure

[Anonymous Coward]

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?

[DeAxes]

Forget mobile, I'm still waiting for Slashdot to have a AAAA record.

A little better

[bsharitt]

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

[jones_supa]

By the way, have you guys noticed that when you open a Slashdot comment in a separate page (by clicking the message ID link) and then close that page, it shows "Working..." at the bottom for a while, possibly phoning home that you closed that comment.

It's fucking worthless

[Pseudonym Authority]

No thanks. It takes forever to load, it looks like shit, and its generally terrible.

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

[pmontra]

I fourth that. And fix the theme so it works with Firefox (mobile). It's a blank page right now. Not that I use FF on my phone often, I'm using Dolphin most of the time but I wouldn't mind if more site were compatible with more browsers.
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:

[beeudoublez]

We're using HTML5 local storage to save your preference for this popup - do you have that turned off?

Re:No thanks

[Tempest_2084]

Can I fifth this or is it redundant by now? The mobile site doesn't offer anything worth switching for and I'm getting tired of that damn popup.

Too funny

[Jmc23]

It sucks and apparently everybody but the designers think so. I wonder if the downfall of slashdot was when they started trying to run it like a business. Managers and designers that know nothing about their audience or apparently don't care. Though it makes sense to build an audience of idiots because idiots buy things. Nerds and geeks will roll their own.

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

[beeudoublez]

We found the bug with persistent popups and we're working on a fix right now. Thanks for the feedback!