The old profile page made more sense to me: there was a list of posts (sortable), and then a list of comments. That’s the information I needed.
Now everything above the fold is a newspaper-like display of just a few posts, with most of the real estate being taken up by illustrations, which are mostly default abstract imagery because most posts on this website don’t (and probably shouldn’t) have illustrations. How is this a good use of space? I understand the demand for customizability, but I thought the old profile page let you pin posts?
I don’t like that you have to click “Feed” to see comments. Comments are important!
It’s not even clear what information “Feed” is showing me! When I scroll down on my “Feed”, after a bunch of recent comments, it shows a bunch of my posts one after another, but I definitely wrote comments in between those posts, as I can confirm on the GreaterWrong viewer. If “Feed” isn’t a reverse-chronological list of both comments and posts (despite the fact that the gear menu says “Show: All”), what even is it? (Speculation: maybe this is a bug caused by the posts already being loaded in order to populate the “All Posts” view, whereas more comments aren’t loaded unless the user scrolls down.)
Speaking of which, I think the old profile page already had this problem, but infinite-scroll or “See more” (in contrast to pagination) is hostile to people who want to read old comments by their favorite user. (I thought supporting “long content” was a design goal?) I like how GreaterWrong has pagination and query parameters (you can just edit the ?offset=n in the address bar) and sort-by-old for comments. (The new profile only has an Old sort option for “All Posts”, not “Feed”.)
The post listing conveys less information than the old profile page. It doesn’t display the number of comments. Mousing over the karma number shows a tooltip that says “Karma score” rather than the number of votes.
I could be sold on excerpting the first few lines of the post, but the title and excerpt and score and date all apparently being part of the same link element (changing color on mouseover) is weird.
The old profile page made more sense to me: there was a list of posts (sortable), and then a list of comments. That’s the information I needed.
Now everything above the fold is a newspaper-like display of just a few posts, with most of the real estate being taken up by illustrations, which are mostly default abstract imagery because most posts on this website don’t (and probably shouldn’t) have illustrations. How is this a good use of space? I understand the demand for customizability, but I thought the old profile page let you pin posts?
I don’t like that you have to click “Feed” to see comments. Comments are important!
It’s not even clear what information “Feed” is showing me! When I scroll down on my “Feed”, after a bunch of recent comments, it shows a bunch of my posts one after another, but I definitely wrote comments in between those posts, as I can confirm on the GreaterWrong viewer. If “Feed” isn’t a reverse-chronological list of both comments and posts (despite the fact that the gear menu says “Show: All”), what even is it? (Speculation: maybe this is a bug caused by the posts already being loaded in order to populate the “All Posts” view, whereas more comments aren’t loaded unless the user scrolls down.)
Speaking of which, I think the old profile page already had this problem, but infinite-scroll or “See more” (in contrast to pagination) is hostile to people who want to read old comments by their favorite user. (I thought supporting “long content” was a design goal?) I like how GreaterWrong has pagination and query parameters (you can just edit the
?offset=nin the address bar) and sort-by-old for comments. (The new profile only has an Old sort option for “All Posts”, not “Feed”.)The post listing conveys less information than the old profile page. It doesn’t display the number of comments. Mousing over the karma number shows a tooltip that says “Karma score” rather than the number of votes.
I could be sold on excerpting the first few lines of the post, but the title and excerpt and score and date all apparently being part of the same link element (changing color on mouseover) is weird.