I am pretty confident you actually pretty reliably care more about what the highest karma/self-curated posts from a user are, than what their most recent posts are (which is what we’ve always shown first so far)
Aside from bristling a bit at being told that what I care about is wrong, I actually do care about recency more often than historical top-ranked for this view. Of course, sometimes I’m looking for “best of”, but more often I’m checking whether the user is in a snit or otherwise commenting recently in a pattern I should understand/accommodate before I join one of their threads.
Aside from bristling a bit at being told that what I care about is wrong
Much of UI design is figuring out what users care about, which involves disagreeing with people about what they care about! “If I had asked what they wanted, they would have asked for a faster horse”, etc.
Agree that recent activity is also pretty important. I am thinking about whether we should make the feed view the default view in the section below the top posts, because I do think that’s the second most common use-case for the page. I’ll iterate a bit over the coming days.
In fact, you’re absolutely correct—I retract that part of my response. I also recognize that I use this feature (looking at someone’s profile to see their recent posts/comments) less often that others might use it for other purposes (looking at their best/top contributions).
Too many user-options is worse than slight misses on some defaults. I’m grateful for LW, even when it’s optimized for people who are not exactly me. Carry on experimenting, and see how people react and change their usage.
In fact, you’re absolutely correct—I retract that part of my response
I’m actually a bit confused what you currently believe about your preferences. You think you don’t care as much about recency (but, some?). Or basically you overall prefer top posts when looking at author pages?
Sorry for lack of clarity in my retraction—I’m pretty sure I’m right about my preferences—I am usually looking for recency. That belief hasn’t changed.
I have retracted my annoyance—I should not be, and no longer am bothered by your use of “you” when it’s really “most users” or “our target user”. I hope it was useful for me to give my common use case, but I don’t intend to demand anything—this topic is peripheral enough to my value from LessWrong that I wanted to reduce, rather than increase, any load I’m imposing.
Aside from bristling a bit at being told that what I care about is wrong, I actually do care about recency more often than historical top-ranked for this view. Of course, sometimes I’m looking for “best of”, but more often I’m checking whether the user is in a snit or otherwise commenting recently in a pattern I should understand/accommodate before I join one of their threads.
Much of UI design is figuring out what users care about, which involves disagreeing with people about what they care about! “If I had asked what they wanted, they would have asked for a faster horse”, etc.
Agree that recent activity is also pretty important. I am thinking about whether we should make the feed view the default view in the section below the top posts, because I do think that’s the second most common use-case for the page. I’ll iterate a bit over the coming days.
In fact, you’re absolutely correct—I retract that part of my response. I also recognize that I use this feature (looking at someone’s profile to see their recent posts/comments) less often that others might use it for other purposes (looking at their best/top contributions).
Too many user-options is worse than slight misses on some defaults. I’m grateful for LW, even when it’s optimized for people who are not exactly me. Carry on experimenting, and see how people react and change their usage.
I’m actually a bit confused what you currently believe about your preferences. You think you don’t care as much about recency (but, some?). Or basically you overall prefer top posts when looking at author pages?
Sorry for lack of clarity in my retraction—I’m pretty sure I’m right about my preferences—I am usually looking for recency. That belief hasn’t changed.
I have retracted my annoyance—I should not be, and no longer am bothered by your use of “you” when it’s really “most users” or “our target user”. I hope it was useful for me to give my common use case, but I don’t intend to demand anything—this topic is peripheral enough to my value from LessWrong that I wanted to reduce, rather than increase, any load I’m imposing.
Oli told me there would be interactions like this.