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Re:Thanks For Reading: 15 Years of News For Nerds by praptak on Monday October 01, 2012 @11:20AM (#4597474)
Note that GP said 'was'. I cannot tell how it is now, but there definitely was a point in time when Slashdot went for a dumb JS-enabled-dynamic-interactive fad and totally screwed the usability of their comments section. This is what made me stop participating.
Re:Thanks For Reading: 15 Years of News For Nerds by mhurron on Monday October 01, 2012 @12:03PM (#4597709)
Yes when they first put in the Javascript it was a pain, of course NoScript fixed that.

Reddit was, is, and looks like it always will be, a mess. Even when Slashdot first put in the Javascript in place you could at least still find things on the site.

Re:Thanks For Reading: 15 Years of News For Nerds by pbhjpbhj on Monday October 01, 2012 @02:55PM (#4598711)
>a dumb JS-enabled-dynamic-interactive fad //

They still have that, so not so much of a fad. It works but at the time it got in the way for me too and probably contributed to me jumping ship as well.

HN crowd on /. comment moderation with slimmer graphics and collapsible comment trees (like reddit) would probably be close to what I think of as ideal.

Re:Thanks For Reading: 15 Years of News For Nerds by rhizome on Monday October 01, 2012 @09:35PM (#4600269)
In other words, the way it was before the JS and redesign failures. I agree.