Ok, here’s what I think the primary scenario as it applies to me:
I feel like the challenge is to have the profile not be overwhelming and suggest while preserving information density. I can think of three potential solutions:
Have fewer sections displayed at once, but each item of a section doesn’t need to be large (like the Youtube Videos or Shorts tab on a channel page). This relies on thumbnails being informative, so they would need to improve.
Make the top ~1/3 of the profile page really draw the eye and suggest some content, and the rest as clean as possible
Global setting that regular users can change, which makes user pages more information dense (sort of like old/new reddit). Maybe this can be accessible on any user page.
I think the new page (with or without top posts) looks better than the old page, but some part of the bio should definitely be at the top, or you can’t even tell it’s a user page (vs a subtopic or something). If a user has a bio, the first 10 words of it is probably the most important 10 words on the page, and a viewer might not want to read on any of their content if they don’t know anything about the author. I would certainly want anyone who sees my user page to immediately know I work at METR, for instance.
Ok, here’s what I think the primary scenario as it applies to me:
I feel like the challenge is to have the profile not be overwhelming and suggest while preserving information density. I can think of three potential solutions:
Have fewer sections displayed at once, but each item of a section doesn’t need to be large (like the Youtube Videos or Shorts tab on a channel page). This relies on thumbnails being informative, so they would need to improve.
Make the top ~1/3 of the profile page really draw the eye and suggest some content, and the rest as clean as possible
Global setting that regular users can change, which makes user pages more information dense (sort of like old/new reddit). Maybe this can be accessible on any user page.
I think the new page (with or without top posts) looks better than the old page, but some part of the bio should definitely be at the top, or you can’t even tell it’s a user page (vs a subtopic or something). If a user has a bio, the first 10 words of it is probably the most important 10 words on the page, and a viewer might not want to read on any of their content if they don’t know anything about the author. I would certainly want anyone who sees my user page to immediately know I work at METR, for instance.