A lot of the goal of the redesign is actually to make it so that you have more control which content you want to represent you on LW. You can now select which posts you want at the top of your profile, and which one you want to give the most prominence, which you didn’t have previously.
Previously, you could group the post you consider to be thematically together into sequences that would be shown at the top of the page.
I think it’s natural that user first think that having Top posts which the hover text “based on karma”, actually shows the posts with the most karma even when it sometimes doesn’t if you configure that on the profile.
One way to communicate the fact that those are switchable would be to show a button for switching when hovering over them on your own profile. Maybe renaming “top posts” into featured posts would also be helpful while changing the tooltip to mention that it also shows user selected posts.
Previously, you could group the post you consider to be thematically together into sequences that would be shown at the top of the page.
It is the case very few people actually did this, but I agree it helped in some cases. But even when people did, most sequence titles are very uninformative, and don’t really work for the purpose of “show people what I am about”. They have even less space for a title than a post-item, and are very small, and if you only had a single sequence it showed up as a kind of lonely weird-looking section on your profile that was quite unbalanced.
I think it’s natural that user first think that having Top posts which the hover text “based on karma”, actually shows the posts with the most karma even when it sometimes doesn’t if you configure that on the profile.
Oops, that’s a bug! I’ll just remove the hover text, since it’s currently definitely more confusing than clarifying.
One way to communicate the fact that those are switchable would be to show a button for switching when hovering over them on your own profile. Maybe renaming “top posts” into featured posts would also be helpful while changing the tooltip to mention that it also shows user selected posts.
Not crazy. I’ll consider changing it to “featured posts”.
Previously, you could group the post you consider to be thematically together into sequences that would be shown at the top of the page.
I think it’s natural that user first think that having Top posts which the hover text “based on karma”, actually shows the posts with the most karma even when it sometimes doesn’t if you configure that on the profile.
One way to communicate the fact that those are switchable would be to show a button for switching when hovering over them on your own profile. Maybe renaming “top posts” into featured posts would also be helpful while changing the tooltip to mention that it also shows user selected posts.
It is the case very few people actually did this, but I agree it helped in some cases. But even when people did, most sequence titles are very uninformative, and don’t really work for the purpose of “show people what I am about”. They have even less space for a title than a post-item, and are very small, and if you only had a single sequence it showed up as a kind of lonely weird-looking section on your profile that was quite unbalanced.
Oops, that’s a bug! I’ll just remove the hover text, since it’s currently definitely more confusing than clarifying.
Not crazy. I’ll consider changing it to “featured posts”.