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Journal Surak's Journal: Taco Eating Contest 9

Journal by Surak

I think we oughta have a Taco eating contest. :) Well, maybe a Taco crushing contest.

Taco's at it again. The Slashdot T-Shirt contest, while kinda cool, is exactly what I thought. A ploy to get the users to do the work that the VA Linux employees that make up the Slashdot editorial team should have been doing all along.

At the end of Taco's latest journal entry, which is filled with the same-old same old condescending attitude, this time towards those that sent in entries for the T-shirt contest, we find some musings that perhaps the next contest will be the "Redesign Slashdot's HTML Contest".

Now this is a bit ridiculous. Who's job is it to maintain Slashdot's look and feel? The USERS??? Um, no. That's why they hired you guys. Not that I wouldn't participate in the contest if the prize is great enough, but sheesh, aside from the sidebar, which everyone loves to hate, they haven't touched Slashdot's HTML in *years*.

Have you *LOOKED* at the code? It's awful. It's quite possibly the worst HTML code I have EVER seen. Ok, pot calling the kettle black here, I've written some pretty horrific code in the past too, but at least mine is somewhat maintainable. Sheesh.

I gotta give Taco credit though. At least it works well across different browsers. Then again, is that because people who write browsers tune their rendering engines based on Slashdot, or is that because Taco wrote (barely) passable code? :)

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  • I've looked at Taco's HTML, and it sucks flat out. Quite possibly the worst professional web job I've examined. I'm not going to do his work for him though. I thought about entering a giant /. symbol cut out of a screen of text made entirely from classic trolls, but decided against it.
  • I could have sworn a redesign was brought up in the IRC Q/A session, but I can't find it. I know I asked :). I think It was brought up in the first IRC QA, though, and they said NO.

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    Questions: Aridhol asks: What advice would you give to people trying to start up their own content site(games,news etc...) How did slashdot get so many viewers?

    hemos: Aridhol: Being there first. And not looking like ass. [can you believe this??!]

    Questions: OcelotLM asks: Have you considered changing the Games co

  • Sure, they are using nested tables for the design, non-breaking spaces, font tags, center tags, etc., but it's not the end of the slashdot world. Using all that stuff was considered standard a few years ago, and is still standard practice if you want to conserve your design across the oldest and newest browsers.

    Myself, I only write XHTML and CSS, but that's because I'm designing personal web sites for fun. In Slashdot's case, however, the website's design currently works with tons of old browsers, and t

  • What's the betting that the shirts will have at least one spelling mistake on, and/or be factually incorrect? :-)
  • I use the stripped down version of the pages that look just fine in Lynx. I don't actually use lynx to /. though. It just looks better as basic text without graphics than looking at the rendered pages. I've never actually seen the Games section I've heard so much whining about. To me it just looks like the rest of /.: text on a white background. Can that be the winner of the redesign context?
  • I figure, i didn't have to code it, and i started reading before i knew anything about it at all, so *shrug* it doesn't bother me so much. I see what you mean, but i'm willing to cut a lot of slack because frankly, i kinda like the place. It looked like this when i came in, and i'd rather have it the way it is. I don't feel the need to see it 'improved,' and i think that a lot of people who complain about it take it pretty much for granted- that's not saying your complaints are groundless, i'm mostly referr
  • If for some reason you need better HTML from Slashdot, that's one of the side effects of using Slashdot skins [dessent.org]. You'll need the Privoxy proxy as well.
  • I'm torn on this issue.

    On one hand... We all know CmdrTaco professionalism and business sense is...umm...non-existant. He never works on parts of Slashdot that needs work, and he's always trying to improve parts of Slashdot that nobody really cares about. He's also highly terroritorial of and possessive of "his" site. I suspect that he will remain this way for the rest of his life. This means Slashdot would remain in a relatively stagnant state as well.

    On the other hand... Perhaps allowing oth
  • Surak, you said that Taco and co. treat /. as their personal blog, so maybe they have been resisting efforts by VA to change the site. They are obviously happy with the status quo, but that does not mena it is good. Viva la revolution!

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