Overall like the aesthetic a fair amount and think it’s going to be a bit improvement once it settles, but am kinda unhappy with how many clicks it will now take me to get to my list of comments sorted by top. That’s the most common thing I do with my userpage, and even though posts are way more important, this seems like it unnecessarily de-emphasises an also relevant feature.
Some vague vibes of… noticing that you want to re-prioritize the page in a way I roughly endorse, but then not taking cheap wins to preserve the values of the things being down-weighted? e.g. now there’s no way to get to drafts from your own userpage, comments are three clicks away, profile desc is not fully expanded by default.
We store how you view your profile page as a user preference. So if last time you visited a profile you filtered for comments sorted by top, you will see the same thing the next time on any future user pages. This seems better to me for this use-case than the previous situation, where you would always have to scroll down, click on the sort button, then sort by top. Now it’s just that way as soon as you land!
e.g. now there’s no way to get to drafts from your own userpage, comments are three clicks away
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. A big problem with the previous page is that it had so many customized elements that you would only see on your own profile that it was very hard to build an intuitive model of what it looks like for other people.
comments are three clicks away
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.
profile desc is not fully expanded by default
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). I think the collapsing broke at one point, but that was a bug, not a feature!
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.
Overall like the aesthetic a fair amount and think it’s going to be a bit improvement once it settles, but am kinda unhappy with how many clicks it will now take me to get to my list of comments sorted by top. That’s the most common thing I do with my userpage, and even though posts are way more important, this seems like it unnecessarily de-emphasises an also relevant feature.
Some vague vibes of… noticing that you want to re-prioritize the page in a way I roughly endorse, but then not taking cheap wins to preserve the values of the things being down-weighted? e.g. now there’s no way to get to drafts from your own userpage, comments are three clicks away, profile desc is not fully expanded by default.
We store how you view your profile page as a user preference. So if last time you visited a profile you filtered for comments sorted by top, you will see the same thing the next time on any future user pages. This seems better to me for this use-case than the previous situation, where you would always have to scroll down, click on the sort button, then sort by top. Now it’s just that way as soon as you land!
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. A big problem with the previous page is that it had so many customized elements that you would only see on your own profile that it was very hard to build an intuitive model of what it looks like for other people.
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.
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). I think the collapsing broke at one point, but that was a bug, not a feature!
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.