There has been another interface re-design—this time, the profile pages have been changed. And again, it has the effect of removing a feature that I have relied upon.
Once again, what has been removed, is the ability to read things in plain reverse chronological order. The Feed redesign removed my ability to see all new posts and all new comments in reverse chronological order. Now the profile redesign has removed my ability to see just my own posts and my own comments in reverse chronological order,
Fortunately I can apparently still do that via my profile at greaterwrong.com. But I am wondering if there is some philosophical hostility towards this option, in interface design these days. For example, YouTube seems to have done the same thing to its own search function. I’m pretty sure that “Filters” there used to have a reverse-chronological option, but now it’s just “relevance” and “popularity”. I have no idea why—maybe it’s a business decision of some kind, maybe it’s trying to screen out AI slop.
There has been another interface re-design—this time, the profile pages have been changed. And again, it has the effect of removing a feature that I have relied upon.
Once again, what has been removed, is the ability to read things in plain reverse chronological order. The Feed redesign removed my ability to see all new posts and all new comments in reverse chronological order. Now the profile redesign has removed my ability to see just my own posts and my own comments in reverse chronological order,
Fortunately I can apparently still do that via my profile at greaterwrong.com. But I am wondering if there is some philosophical hostility towards this option, in interface design these days. For example, YouTube seems to have done the same thing to its own search function. I’m pretty sure that “Filters” there used to have a reverse-chronological option, but now it’s just “relevance” and “popularity”. I have no idea why—maybe it’s a business decision of some kind, maybe it’s trying to screen out AI slop.