Are you a regular reader of slashdot.org? Are you annoyed that as of 2012 they still do not have a decent 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

Send your phone directly to the demo site.

• Try it! live demo page (yesterday's news).
• The old AvantSlash homepage with more background information.
• tarball download
• Documentation: readme, GPL licence, changelog.

Features

• Read slashdot front pages, articles, threads, and polls.
• Search slashdot 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 website, in case you don't want to open the laptop.
• External links to Youtube, Wikipedia, and obligatory xkcd redirected to mobile versions.

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. Tested on iPhone, Android 1.6 (Donut) stock browser, Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) stock browser, Opera Mobile 11 on Android, Nokia Symbian S60 3rd edition stock browser, desktop Firefox 12.

Screen shots

About
Avantslash was developed by Richard Lawrence and Han-Kwang Nienhuys. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by slashdot.org or GeekNet.