I think I’d prefer the header-thing to take up half the vertical width that it does. But I have weaker feelings there and probably others like it more than I dislike it.
“whispy” certainly captures part of my aesthetic discontent. I think it is literally just going from (on my end in dark mode) the previous dark green text on black background to white and grey text on weaker grey background.
Edit: I just looked at the wayback machine, the profile page did not look like what my memories thought it did—I must’ve been thinking of design features elsewhere on LW, like profile mouseovers and green links in post bodies. The “wispy” feeling has also mostly dissipated.
Another thing is that the text displayed per post in the list is actually less than what a hover normally does, but hovers don’t cause the text popup in the post list. Seeing post text on hover is one of my favorite site features—though if I was Overlord of the Internet every site would have gwern’s full on mini windows.
I think I’d prefer the header-thing to take up half the vertical width that it does. But I have weaker feelings there and probably others like it more than I dislike it.
“whispy” certainly captures part of my aesthetic discontent.
I think it is literally just going from (on my end in dark mode) the previous dark green text on black background to white and grey text on weaker grey background.Edit: I just looked at the wayback machine, the profile page did not look like what my memories thought it did—I must’ve been thinking of design features elsewhere on LW, like profile mouseovers and green links in post bodies. The “wispy” feeling has also mostly dissipated.Another thing is that the text displayed per post in the list is actually less than what a hover normally does, but hovers don’t cause the text popup in the post list. Seeing post text on hover is one of my favorite site features—though if I was Overlord of the Internet every site would have gwern’s full on mini windows.