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#4046 AJAX renders unreadable
I was able to cope with the need for 2-10 page loads to get an entire thread to display (with pagination errors) on previous versions of slashdot, however the new javascript form for loading threads is pretty much impossible to use.
You mean to tell me I now need to click nearly 50 times and wait for 50 individual page loads in order to read an entire thread? No only that each time I click that "more" link, the entire browser locks up while the page reloads (can take up to 60 seconds on dial-up), so to read an entire thread on slashdot on dial-up now takes at least an hour just to load the thread with a the user intervening to click every minute and the web browser can do nothing else for the entire time.
You can't tell me that this is good for your serverload. CPU usage and bandwidth must have gone up at least twofold. (probably tenfold)
I have evaluated the situation on a high speed connection, it is better, but the site is still pretty much unreadable now, I'm just not willing to click 50 times and wait a number of seconds between each click for the entire page to load, that is just too much work for recreational reading. At almost all other websites I can get an entire thread to load in one or two clicks.
What are we supposed to do? Write "more" clicking macros to download yesterday's slashdot threads while we sleep and then run a script on it to transform it into a readable form? Hmmm maybe I'll make a site that does exactly that. I'll call it readableslasdot.org.
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Aha! there is a link to the old (still broken too) system if I turn off javascript. It is just hidden as white text on light grey in a very small font, thus making it nearly impossible to find the link to the old display.
"Without JavaScript enabled, you might want to use the classic discussion system instead."
In that sentence the words "the classic discussion system" whioch form the link are nearly invisible as white text on a grey background.
You might want to try not hiding that link like that to try and force people to use this lame new monkey click system.