Yes, or nearly yes. We should do something close to that. (I’ve upvoted this comment,
or I’ve upvoted and replied with some small changes I think would make this design even better,
or I’ve upvoted and upvoted a child of this comment that suggests some improvements).
I do like the idea of splitting up the disparate topics. Personally, living nowhere near any meetup locations, I find those announcements to be a bit spammy.
This. I’d desperately love to have a meetup in my area, but not having one, the spam makes it where I largely ignore main/promoted, which is the exact opposite of what it’s supposed to be.
Might consider making the brain thing more abstract and graphic design-y, something relating to an actual head silhouette like a subway map relates to a geographical map. The region edges that look like they’ve been drawn in freehand look particularly off to me.
The idea itself might be catchy, but I’d prefer graphic layout suggesting a brain profile drawing rather than a brain profile drawing suggesting a graphic layout.
One small change I would like regards whatever magic runs the recent comments/posts widgets. I recently loaded the site on a work computer (!) that was sufficiently ancient as to not understand any of it, and the site loaded amazingly fast (excepting recent widgets, which were disabled). So I suspect that whatever magic runs it is blocking the site from rendering immediately, as it tends to take a couple seconds on my somewhat-modern-but-still-ancient laptop that runs Chrome.
Of course, I know next to nothing about dynamic webpages, so feel free to ignore this if it’s completely misguided.
The main page should load without any of the widgets, but including javascript that triggers once the page is loaded to fetch them. I find your observation hard to explain.
Yes, or nearly yes. We should do something close to that.
(I’ve upvoted this comment, or I’ve upvoted and replied with some small changes I think would make this design even better, or I’ve upvoted and upvoted a child of this comment that suggests some improvements).
I do like the idea of splitting up the disparate topics. Personally, living nowhere near any meetup locations, I find those announcements to be a bit spammy.
This. I’d desperately love to have a meetup in my area, but not having one, the spam makes it where I largely ignore main/promoted, which is the exact opposite of what it’s supposed to be.
Might consider making the brain thing more abstract and graphic design-y, something relating to an actual head silhouette like a subway map relates to a geographical map. The region edges that look like they’ve been drawn in freehand look particularly off to me.
The idea itself might be catchy, but I’d prefer graphic layout suggesting a brain profile drawing rather than a brain profile drawing suggesting a graphic layout.
One small change I would like regards whatever magic runs the recent comments/posts widgets. I recently loaded the site on a work computer (!) that was sufficiently ancient as to not understand any of it, and the site loaded amazingly fast (excepting recent widgets, which were disabled). So I suspect that whatever magic runs it is blocking the site from rendering immediately, as it tends to take a couple seconds on my somewhat-modern-but-still-ancient laptop that runs Chrome.
Of course, I know next to nothing about dynamic webpages, so feel free to ignore this if it’s completely misguided.
The main page should load without any of the widgets, but including javascript that triggers once the page is loaded to fetch them. I find your observation hard to explain.
Then it’s probably just a hallucination! Nevermind. :-)