Ah, yeah, I think we shouldn’t show the spotlight item summary on hover. Seems confusing and speaking about the article and author in third person feels sudden.
I’m honestly not really happy with describing the author in the third person in spotlight either, I think we should just try to find a different way of accomplishing the goal there (which I think is to avoid “I” speak which also feels jarring in the summaries)
I said similar elsewhere, but I agree that “I” speak would be really bad (don’t put words into the author’s mouth, especially in this case, where it would mislead the reader about the writing style/ability of the post), but I also think switching out the post for a summary is pretty jarring to begin with.
Since every post for years has been peekable as the first couple paragraphs, showing a summary unlabeled is always a jarring bait-and-switch
I do not have especially strong feelings about it besides the initial confusion. I think maybe confusion could be fixed just by saying something like “Featured post summary:” or similar, which would help explain why, when I expected the first paragraph of the essay, I’m reading a summary
Ah, yeah, I think we shouldn’t show the spotlight item summary on hover. Seems confusing and speaking about the article and author in third person feels sudden.
I’m honestly not really happy with describing the author in the third person in spotlight either, I think we should just try to find a different way of accomplishing the goal there (which I think is to avoid “I” speak which also feels jarring in the summaries)
I said similar elsewhere, but I agree that “I” speak would be really bad (don’t put words into the author’s mouth, especially in this case, where it would mislead the reader about the writing style/ability of the post), but I also think switching out the post for a summary is pretty jarring to begin with.
Since every post for years has been peekable as the first couple paragraphs, showing a summary unlabeled is always a jarring bait-and-switch
I do not have especially strong feelings about it besides the initial confusion. I think maybe confusion could be fixed just by saying something like “Featured post summary:” or similar, which would help explain why, when I expected the first paragraph of the essay, I’m reading a summary