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It looks... okay. I'll leave the technical issues (such as non-responsive elements) to people with more skill to critique them. My main issue with the redesign

It looks... okay. I'll leave the technical issues (such as non-responsive elements) to people with more skill to critique them. My main issue with the redesign is that it's too generic. It doesn't look that much different than any other site. My personal preference would be something very much like this new design but that incorporates more of the signature things that make Slashdot look like, well, Slashdot. A good example of a site that pulls this off is reddit. Reddit actually looks quite a bit different from the way it did when it launched, but it still looks like reddit. I think this is primarily because reddit doesn't like launching "THE" new design every once in a while. Its strategy is more of constantly tweaking the look of the site. I think Slashdot should take this approach.

taftster 13y ago
I mean, that's nice and all. But Slashdot, in design terms, has been locked in the past for so long without incremental design updates - it's likely that anything more than very simple cosmetics would be perceived as a radical change (much like this). If Slashdot would have been doing incremental design changes like Reddit, then possibly this beta wouldn't look "unlike" Slashdot. It's just that they are attempting to radically catch up or risk being left a relic of Web 1.0 forever. Slashdot's previous design changes have always, for me, made the experience worse, not better - so I for one appreciate this new direction and welcome our new /. design overlords.
vacri 13y ago
I had the same response. It's 'nice', but it looks washed-out and generic. There's no part of the design that looks like a signature difference. The colour scheme seems to have moved from 'bold and clear' to 'gentle pastel'. Personally, I like 'authentically digital' as a web design ethic, but I can't wait for 'flat' to be superceded by the next fad.
posabsolute 13y ago
Can someone tell me why the images are fading in on the homepage on desktop? Is that a performance enhancement? bandwidth saving? Is that for help mobile browser, it's just weird to me, I just want to see the image and it seems to be affecting my scroll at times.

taftster 13y ago

I mean, that's nice and all. But Slashdot, in design terms, has been locked in the past for so long without incremental design updates - it's likely that anything more than very simple cosmetics would be perceived as a radical change (much like this). If Slashdot would have been doing incremental design changes like Reddit, then possibly this beta wouldn't look "unlike" Slashdot. It's just that they are attempting to radically catch up or risk being left a relic of Web 1.0 forever. Slashdot's previous design changes have always, for me, made the experience worse, not better - so I for one appreciate this new direction and welcome our new /. design overlords.

vacri 13y ago

I had the same response. It's 'nice', but it looks washed-out and generic. There's no part of the design that looks like a signature difference. The colour scheme seems to have moved from 'bold and clear' to 'gentle pastel'. Personally, I like 'authentically digital' as a web design ethic, but I can't wait for 'flat' to be superceded by the next fad.

posabsolute 13y ago

Can someone tell me why the images are fading in on the homepage on desktop? Is that a performance enhancement? bandwidth saving? Is that for help mobile browser, it's just weird to me, I just want to see the image and it seems to be affecting my scroll at times.