I didn’t like the new feed until I found the Source Weights sliders and was able to upweight Recent Comments and Latest Posts to 50, restoring some of the old behavior. But I think I still prefer the old interface. Not sure yet if I’ll keep this opinion or learn to interact with LW in some other way.
I liked reading recent comments because
they’re highly diverse, which is what I’m looking for when I scroll LW (when I want to focus I do something else, like pull up a tag for lit review or read all the comments on a thread)
Also I can’t help but feel like in an algorithmically curated feed my brain is constantly being manipulated in ways I can’t control
I know I’m not missing anything. Twitter is an endless sea which sends me endless flotsam, and is thus frustrating to interact with. On Reddit every good post is likely to make it to the front page. On LW every post with good discussion has a high volume of good comments, so one can randomly sample using recent comments.
they’re fresh, so when I reply I’m likely to get more engagement, whereas I don’t know what discussions to participate in in a way that gets engagement from the current opaque feed structure.
I also think the interface could be improved a bit. This one took up a huge amount of vertical space on my screen and I didn’t understand any of the three comments, nor were they relevant to me. Many of the comments are only understandable with context from a parent one is unlikely to read, so these should either be filtered out or just take up less space.
I didn’t like the new feed until I found the Source Weights sliders and was able to upweight Recent Comments and Latest Posts to 50, restoring some of the old behavior. But I think I still prefer the old interface. Not sure yet if I’ll keep this opinion or learn to interact with LW in some other way.
I liked reading recent comments because
they’re highly diverse, which is what I’m looking for when I scroll LW (when I want to focus I do something else, like pull up a tag for lit review or read all the comments on a thread)
Also I can’t help but feel like in an algorithmically curated feed my brain is constantly being manipulated in ways I can’t control
I know I’m not missing anything. Twitter is an endless sea which sends me endless flotsam, and is thus frustrating to interact with. On Reddit every good post is likely to make it to the front page. On LW every post with good discussion has a high volume of good comments, so one can randomly sample using recent comments.
they’re fresh, so when I reply I’m likely to get more engagement, whereas I don’t know what discussions to participate in in a way that gets engagement from the current opaque feed structure.
I also think the interface could be improved a bit. This one took up a huge amount of vertical space on my screen and I didn’t understand any of the three comments, nor were they relevant to me. Many of the comments are only understandable with context from a parent one is unlikely to read, so these should either be filtered out or just take up less space.