Following is the intended way to avoid randomness. I kind of see as the “the recommendation algorithm wasn’t good enough” escape hatch for people.
I don’t want to limit my view to people who I’m following; I want to be able to view each of these weighted mix ingredients individually, chronologically. I want nothing to do with recommender-type randomization.
What do you mean by multi-post thread?
This thing:
it shows this repeatedly, with many instances of context-for-a-thing. kinda needs a way to mute a post, or something? there’s a “see less like this :sparkles:” but I don’t want to see less, I want to see none of specific things, mainly ones I deem to be distracting drama. I’m not super clear why, but it felt like I saw less drama in the pure-recent-comments mode than this feed is giving me, even with the recommender off—maybe there was a lot of drama lurking under the surface, or maybe the new feed has reset my mental adblock a bit. In general, I want all the randomness gone; randomness feels like it’s ~for making things addictive. The recommender should probably be off by default (or removed entirely), seeing as how those things are cognitohazards, especially when they’re the normal kind rather than some Leo Gao galaxy brain customizeable thing.
different post types use different layouts in a way that makes it hard to tell things apart—breaks the “different things should be different” design rule. Here’s a post by Human wanting replying to an unshown post titled TsviBT, and below it, a top-level post titled James Diacoumis which begins “Sahil’s argument...”. Just kidding, strike that, reverse those. The second one sure does look like a top level post, though. In general there’s not enough use of different visual emphasis to build a reading flow.
I don’t want to limit my view to people who I’m following; I want to be able to view each of these weighted mix ingredients individually, chronologically. I want nothing to do with recommender-type randomization.
This thing:
it shows this repeatedly, with many instances of context-for-a-thing. kinda needs a way to mute a post, or something? there’s a “see less like this :sparkles:” but I don’t want to see less, I want to see none of specific things, mainly ones I deem to be distracting drama. I’m not super clear why, but it felt like I saw less drama in the pure-recent-comments mode than this feed is giving me, even with the recommender off—maybe there was a lot of drama lurking under the surface, or maybe the new feed has reset my mental adblock a bit. In general, I want all the randomness gone; randomness feels like it’s ~for making things addictive. The recommender should probably be off by default (or removed entirely), seeing as how those things are cognitohazards, especially when they’re the normal kind rather than some Leo Gao galaxy brain customizeable thing.
different post types use different layouts in a way that makes it hard to tell things apart—breaks the “different things should be different” design rule. Here’s a post by Human wanting replying to an unshown post titled TsviBT, and below it, a top-level post titled James Diacoumis which begins “Sahil’s argument...”. Just kidding, strike that, reverse those. The second one sure does look like a top level post, though. In general there’s not enough use of different visual emphasis to build a reading flow.