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avantslash org mobile version of slashdot avantslash org homepage avantslash home download readme change log are you a regular reader of slashdot org or soylentnews org are you annoyed that as of 2014 slashdot still does not have a decent see below mobile website then avantslash may be something for you avantslash is a perl script that should run on a webserver that you control it will screen scrape the slashdot org website and reformat the content for your mobile phone links 2017 08 27 demo mode disabled possibly this server ip was getting blocked download latest version 4 16 2017 08 28 slashdot bugfix documentation readme gpl licence changelog avantslash discussed on soylentnews features read slashdot and soylentnews front pages articles threads and polls search slashdot soylentnews stories lightweight html output with dynamic comment loading skinning desktop or mobile view font size etc configurable from the browser replying to comments via the regular slashdot sn website in case you don t want to open the laptop external links to youtube wikipedia and obligatory xkcd redirected to mobile versions and more system requirements a web server with perl 5 x with the cgi and lwp libwww perl modules installed and support for cgi scripts a web browser with javascript support works on all smartphone and desktop browsers tested on iphone android 1 6 donut stock browser android 2 3 gingerbread stock browser android 4 x jelly bean chrome browser opera mobile 11 on android nokia symbian s60 3rd edition stock browser desktop firefox 12 38 screenshots avantslash main page soylentnews comments page preferences page comments page 2014 01 01 soylentnews main page soylentnews search page why screenshot of m slashdot org january 2014 as of 2014 slashdot does have a mobile site see screenshot but on the stock browser of my 2011 android gingerbread phone it is close to unusable and on opera mobile it doesn t work at all indeed the faq states that one should use the latest chrome for android browser in order to use it it is slow to load and unresponsive it uses a gray on gray color scheme with poor readability under daylight conditions a lot of screen real estate is wasted on empty space and redundant comment hidden messages if you use a mobile device while sitting in the bus train or some other location away from your trusted wifi network you will be using mobile data you may not always have five bars of 3 5g signal strength and you may have a limited data plan as of march 2014 slashdot org has four versions of their site 1 the classic version 2 the mobile version 3 the beta version and 4 the legacy version static html d1 only selectable for logged in users the table below shows the total data downloaded for different use cases including avantslash as of march 2014 soylentnews has only the legacy static html version the data used by avantslash depends on whether the server has gzip deflate compression enabled site user agent main page 1st hit kb main page reload kb comments page kb m slashdot org mar 2014 75 55 60 45 80 m slashdot org jan 2014 940 910 300 slashdot org classic ajax d2 1320 270 550 170 220 230 beta slashdot org 2250 380 460 190 slashdot org legacy static d1 1100 540 130 180 avantslash slashdot 36 29 15 59 avantslash mod_deflate slashdot 17 12 5 18 soylentnews org legacy static 2014 03 15 190 34 24 14 soylentnews org legacy static ca 2014 03 02 190 42 114 19 avantslash soylentnews 28 21 25 34 avantslash mod_deflate soylentnews 13 9 11 13 when i first made this list the slashdot mobile site was really bad with hundreds of kb for loading a page maybe they read this page it improved quite a bit in terms of bandwidth however slashdot mobile still seems to put high demands on the phone cpu memory and browser engine version and in my opinion it has a crummy user interface slashdot s regular desktop pages are way too big for a low speed data connection anyway in contrast avantslash is very lightweight and has a configurable user interface as of march 2014 soylentnews has fairly lightweight html so the main reason for using avantslash would be that the layout is adjusted better for mobile usage for instance with the chrome browser on a 7 inch tablet android 4 3 the comments are not very practical to read in portrait mode choose between tiny fonts or horizontal scrolling like slashdot they shaved off some of the data load likely related to this thread on soylentnews still avantslash shaves a few bytes more off the data for those cases when you have only a 2g data connection method for the numbers in the table the rx bytes as reported by ifconfig were counted in the following sequence 1 open main page with empty cache 2 reload main page 3 go to comments page 4 change threshold to 2 and expand a few hidden messages this was for a comments page with 187 comments in total 10 at score 4 81 at score 2 slashdot beta and mobile seem to download 100 comments on first load without refreshes upon changing the threshold so there is only one number for the last two items the ads on slashdot org make the data payload somewhat variable hence the ranges for soylentnews a similar procedure was followed for a story with 41 comments at first load it is displayed in threaded mode with most comments hidden the second number for comments is in nested mode at threshold 2 the older soylentnews data was for a different story with 132 comments avantslash was running on an apache 2 2 server with and without mod_deflate enabled for html javascript and css limitations slashdot beta by the end of the year 2013 slashdot started serving main and comments pages in beta layout at random about one out of three times on february 5 2014 slashdot started doing this for logged in users as well which led to a massive revolt among the slashdot user community fortunately this can for now be suppressed by sending an appropriate cookie to the slashdot server the beta comment pages are organized completely different from the classic pages there are no comments in the html output rather all comments are downloaded dynamically via javascript obviously in the beta layout there are no comments for the avantslash code to extract and it would be difficult to maintain code to deal with two entirely different server engines maximum number of stories comments slashdot will serve at most 100 comments preferentially those with high scores and not too deeply nested it will never serve comments with score 0 or 1 on a story page if you want to see more comments you have to click the thread links under the comments note that this will open a thread page containing the post its replies and its parent but not its siblings seeing the entire thread may require traversing the thread upward by iteratively clicking the parent post soylentnews as of march 2014 soylentnews does not use the d2 system which avantslash would use for dynamic message expansion so this feature is not supported for soylentnews also soylentnews delivers at most 50 messages to non logged in users something which is reflected in avantslash s message display about avantslash was developed by richard lawrence and han kwang nienhuys we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the corporate overlords of slashdot org i e bizx contact developers this is a test find out how to contact us