I don’t like it, and here’s what I think is why: since LessWrong already does a good job of showing article text on link mouse over, I like having a bunch of titles that I can hover to get the article text if I want. The new page spends more of the screen on body that I could already easily see if I wanted to, and so is a waste of space.
I’m not sure how much of my feelings are just “AAA, THE UI CHANGED!”. Considering how when I (rarely) use reddit I prefer the old UI despite having not been around in the old days and having used the new one for years after finding the platform, it’s likely that I’ll still object to this UI after getting used to it.
Edit: Looking at the mobile version: It’s great! No complaints, I strictly like the new mobile version better than the old mobile version!
My current take is that we should make the below-the-first-screen post list a bunch denser, but I am strongly in favor of the above-the-first-screen post list being more spacious like it currently is.
It just makes a huge difference for people to get an immediate strong sense of what someone’s best writing is, and especially new users (for which the profile page is a major entry point). But I currently am not super enamored with the post list, which both feels a bit whispy, and not dense/skimmable enough.
As an update, recently I was looking at the EA forum and, oh man, I definitely prefer the new LW UI. I still have my complaint about usually-useless images wasting space in the header, but on net I prefer the new UI.
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 don’t like it, and here’s what I think is why: since LessWrong already does a good job of showing article text on link mouse over, I like having a bunch of titles that I can hover to get the article text if I want. The new page spends more of the screen on body that I could already easily see if I wanted to, and so is a waste of space.
I’m not sure how much of my feelings are just “AAA, THE UI CHANGED!”. Considering how when I (rarely) use reddit I prefer the old UI despite having not been around in the old days and having used the new one for years after finding the platform, it’s likely that I’ll still object to this UI after getting used to it.
Edit: Looking at the mobile version: It’s great! No complaints, I strictly like the new mobile version better than the old mobile version!
My current take is that we should make the below-the-first-screen post list a bunch denser, but I am strongly in favor of the above-the-first-screen post list being more spacious like it currently is.
It just makes a huge difference for people to get an immediate strong sense of what someone’s best writing is, and especially new users (for which the profile page is a major entry point). But I currently am not super enamored with the post list, which both feels a bit whispy, and not dense/skimmable enough.
As an update, recently I was looking at the EA forum and, oh man, I definitely prefer the new LW UI. I still have my complaint about usually-useless images wasting space in the header, but on net I prefer the new UI.
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.