I’m a user-styles kind of guy (and I mostly use GreaterWrong because of how heavy lesswrong is on my computer for some reason) anyways, but there are a couple more tweaks that might be killer while you guys are in the themes department:
Typeface choices (especially some nice serif fonts)
Customizable width (the site is really narrow on my screen for some reason, which causes a lot of wasteful eye movement from end-to-start of the line)
This is in fact the first alternate-theme built on a new infrastructure for theme-building. Part of my motivation for writing this was to be able to make styling changes in areas where the LW team doesn’t have (and isn’t likely to reach) consensus. Line-length is one example where we have an internal disagreement that might be resolved by a theme.
As for heaviness/load time, you might want to recheck. We’ve made great strides in loading-time. There’s still a ways to go, but we also haven’t stopped.
There’s some attention to width in the top right of my screen, letting me select between “normal”, “wide”, and “fluid”. There’s also a theme-switcher, but it doesn’t let me make my own, as far as I’m aware, which means no choosing a font.
Oh my, this really does quite a bit for my perception of the site’s readability. Thanks to everyone who worked on this!
I’m a user-styles kind of guy (and I mostly use GreaterWrong because of how heavy lesswrong is on my computer for some reason) anyways, but there are a couple more tweaks that might be killer while you guys are in the themes department:
Typeface choices (especially some nice serif fonts)
Customizable width (the site is really narrow on my screen for some reason, which causes a lot of wasteful eye movement from end-to-start of the line)
This is in fact the first alternate-theme built on a new infrastructure for theme-building. Part of my motivation for writing this was to be able to make styling changes in areas where the LW team doesn’t have (and isn’t likely to reach) consensus. Line-length is one example where we have an internal disagreement that might be resolved by a theme.
As for heaviness/load time, you might want to recheck. We’ve made great strides in loading-time. There’s still a ways to go, but we also haven’t stopped.
Does GreaterWrong do any of those?
There’s some attention to width in the top right of my screen, letting me select between “normal”, “wide”, and “fluid”. There’s also a theme-switcher, but it doesn’t let me make my own, as far as I’m aware, which means no choosing a font.