Even now, I still don’t think I like the LW redesign, mostly because of speed and aesthetics reasons. I know stuff is in place to speed up the site, so I guess that’s a work in progress. The grey on grey for text, though, feels like it’s way too long contrast; there’s something else aesthetically going on where because everything is the same shade of light grey, nothing feels like it has “weight”, and the focus isn’t fully on the content either because of how it all doesn’t seem to pop out.
For me, all of the nifty new features like sequences, meetup pages, and shortform feeds feel like they’re missing the point. If the site feels slow and doesn’t seem to have the visual affordances, I don’t feel compelled to participate as fully, regardless of what else I can do on the site.
I’m glad greaterwrong exists because it addresses both of these issues, but I’m curious if these are turn-offs for other people.
So I’m not 100% sure which part of the site are most problematic from your perspective, but I’m curious if this feels like it moves the needle in the right direction:
(relatedly: what percentage of posts have you read, and correspondingly, in the current site frontpage, what percentage of posts appear as a grayed-out “already read”)
Does it feel more like you’d want the LW-styling smashed-and-rebuilt-from-scratch, or are there particular incremental changes that would accomplish disproportionate value?
Even now, I still don’t think I like the LW redesign, mostly because of speed and aesthetics reasons. I know stuff is in place to speed up the site, so I guess that’s a work in progress. The grey on grey for text, though, feels like it’s way too long contrast; there’s something else aesthetically going on where because everything is the same shade of light grey, nothing feels like it has “weight”, and the focus isn’t fully on the content either because of how it all doesn’t seem to pop out.
For me, all of the nifty new features like sequences, meetup pages, and shortform feeds feel like they’re missing the point. If the site feels slow and doesn’t seem to have the visual affordances, I don’t feel compelled to participate as fully, regardless of what else I can do on the site.
I’m glad greaterwrong exists because it addresses both of these issues, but I’m curious if these are turn-offs for other people.
So I’m not 100% sure which part of the site are most problematic from your perspective, but I’m curious if this feels like it moves the needle in the right direction:
(relatedly: what percentage of posts have you read, and correspondingly, in the current site frontpage, what percentage of posts appear as a grayed-out “already read”)
Yeah! The screenshot you shared helps. I think most of the frontpage stuff ends up greyed out for me because I click on most things.
Which GreaterWrong styling do you use?
Does it feel more like you’d want the LW-styling smashed-and-rebuilt-from-scratch, or are there particular incremental changes that would accomplish disproportionate value?
I use the GW styling that mimics the old LW. I think that certain things which seem to matter a lot to me are darker borders and higher contrast.