That’s intentional, mostly to reduce confusion about which parts of the user page are shown to everyone, and which ones are just for you.
Yeah, that’s a pretty good reason, I’m sure we’ll adjust.
Only one click away! Why would it be three clicks? Just click once on feed and you are there. Also if you did it once, it now becomes your default view for all profiles, if that’s what you prefer.
Specifically: Comments (or shortforms) only sorted by highest karma. It’s click gear → click comments + click top, even if I’m already on feed.
to be fair, this is kinda niche, but i do do it a lot as I often want to link some of my top comments to people. feel free to be like that’s a weird usecase and ignore it[1], but seems correct to register that this user does this.
And I can just scroll a bit more on the feed sorted by top, which is only two clicks (gear->top)?
We actually had been collapsing profile descriptions previously as well (though we’ve definitely moved it down the page with the new redesign and made it smaller).
Right, given new placement it probably makes sense to fully expand as it’s not going to push other content down, as a way to partly preserve the visibility here?
to be fair, this is kinda niche, but i do do it a lot as I often want to link some of my top comments to people. feel free to be like that’s a weird usecase and ignore it[1], but seems correct to register that this user does this.
Yeah, but if you do this a lot, this setting now persists, which I think will overall reduce your number of clicks here? Like, previously you had to do this on every visit, but now you only have to do it if you were doing something else on your last profile visit.
Yeah, that’s a pretty good reason, I’m sure we’ll adjust.
Specifically: Comments (or shortforms) only sorted by highest karma. It’s click gear → click comments + click top, even if I’m already on feed.
to be fair, this is kinda niche, but i do do it a lot as I often want to link some of my top comments to people. feel free to be like that’s a weird usecase and ignore it[1], but seems correct to register that this user does this.
And I can just scroll a bit more on the feed sorted by top, which is only two clicks (gear->top)?
Right, given new placement it probably makes sense to fully expand as it’s not going to push other content down, as a way to partly preserve the visibility here?
Yeah, but if you do this a lot, this setting now persists, which I think will overall reduce your number of clicks here? Like, previously you had to do this on every visit, but now you only have to do it if you were doing something else on your last profile visit.
It doesn’t persist on FF. The switch to Feed does, but not the settings.
Oops, well that’s definitely a bug. Will fix.