As far as the page goes, I feel like it’s a worse than the old one. While it’s a bit more beautiful it’s a lot less functional. Trading functionality for beauty seems to go against the core way of LessWrong’s usual design that’s quite minimalistic. It would probably be best to revert to the old one.
In particular:
The new one doesn’t show the biography at the top but to the right bottom where it’s a lot less central.
It makes Sequences very hard to find, which reduces the agency of users to present their work by presenting.
If you are seeking a post by someone where you don’t know the exact title but have some idea about the karma that the post had, the new placement of the karma makes it harder to scan for the post. Maybe there should both be list like the old UI and an expanded option.
Having to click on the dial to see which sort mode is currently selected seems to add unnecessary friction.
Currently, the user statistics don’t seem to be shown at all if there’s a biography. That’s probably more of a bug than a design decision.
It makes Sequences very hard to find, which reduces the agency of users to present their work by presenting.
The user has much more agency, they can now choose which posts to present themselves with, and with much more space to work with for that! I would take bets at high odds that many more users will feel agency over their new profile page instead of the old one.
If you are seeking a post by someone where you don’t know the exact title but have some idea about the karma that the post had, the new placement of the karma makes it harder to scan for the post.
Yep, agree, though the change feels pretty minimal to me. You can just sort by karma, and then that should allow you to find it pretty quickly.
Currently, the user statistics don’t seem to be shown at all if there’s a biography. That’s probably more of a bug than a design decision.
Same decision as for the bio. The user statistics show on hover for every user, and they are particularly disorienting for someone who comes in from outside of LW to the profile (and everyone navigating to the profile from another LW page just saw the statistics when hovering over the username before clicking). On mobile where there isn’t hover they are relatively prominent close to the top.
Having to click on the dial to see which sort mode is currently selected seems to add unnecessary friction.
That’s the standard pattern all across LW :P I am sure users would not appreciate having a giant sorting option box open by default.
As far as the page goes, I feel like it’s a worse than the old one. While it’s a bit more beautiful it’s a lot less functional. Trading functionality for beauty seems to go against the core way of LessWrong’s usual design that’s quite minimalistic. It would probably be best to revert to the old one.
In particular:
The new one doesn’t show the biography at the top but to the right bottom where it’s a lot less central.
It makes Sequences very hard to find, which reduces the agency of users to present their work by presenting.
If you are seeking a post by someone where you don’t know the exact title but have some idea about the karma that the post had, the new placement of the karma makes it harder to scan for the post. Maybe there should both be list like the old UI and an expanded option.
Having to click on the dial to see which sort mode is currently selected seems to add unnecessary friction.
Currently, the user statistics don’t seem to be shown at all if there’s a biography. That’s probably more of a bug than a design decision.
See: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qRQi9yzji8Ddzbzff/joanna-s-shortform?commentId=CSSd2wzE85kYbuXZn
The user has much more agency, they can now choose which posts to present themselves with, and with much more space to work with for that! I would take bets at high odds that many more users will feel agency over their new profile page instead of the old one.
Yep, agree, though the change feels pretty minimal to me. You can just sort by karma, and then that should allow you to find it pretty quickly.
Same decision as for the bio. The user statistics show on hover for every user, and they are particularly disorienting for someone who comes in from outside of LW to the profile (and everyone navigating to the profile from another LW page just saw the statistics when hovering over the username before clicking). On mobile where there isn’t hover they are relatively prominent close to the top.
That’s the standard pattern all across LW :P I am sure users would not appreciate having a giant sorting option box open by default.