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)
Hm, for newish-to-me users, yes. But for users that I’m already familiar with / I’ve been reading for a while, I am more interested in their recent posts. And I open the profiles of the latter more often than those of the former.
or exercise small mental effort to ignore non-title text (which I have to do now)
Your brain is really good at parsing images! There is a reason why every other website on the internet uses images to convey context and content about a story. An image really conveys a lot!
Perhaps you misunderstood me. It’s not about the images. I meant that this
is more time-consuming to browse through than a list like this
But now that I think about it more, maybe I’m overapplying the heuristics that I adopted for my email, and it’s nice to be able to read the preview without having to hover. But I still will want to scroll through posts sometimes, so some “collapse/show preview” button would be great to have.
ETA: I also loved being able to see the comments without opening the post, and this option is gone now on the profile page.
Yeah, if I am looking for a post with a specific name, or just “I think I wrote a post on this topic”, then seeing lots of article names is more useful than seeing only a few previews.
The flipside that made me excited about the current thing was “now, as I’m browsing posts, I actually have a chance of figuring out whether a post is good before clicking on it.” It’s not that there’s less information density, it’s that it’s differently distributed.
I think there should totally be a view for “dense reading of post titles”, but, it’s not the only thing I might want.
(My current guess is there should be a search filter, and if you’ve typed into the search filter, you get a more dense view)
Perhaps you misunderstood me. It’s not about the images. I meant that this
Ah, yep, I did misunderstand you. Agree that that section is now less dense.
I also loved being able to see the comments without opening the post, and this option is gone now on the profile page.
Yeah, I do also like this, and I might try to add something like it back, but it’s quite a bit of work (the “click on the comment icon to expand just the recent comments” interaction is among the most confusing interactions for new users, so it’s a bit tricky to get right).
Hm, for newish-to-me users, yes. But for users that I’m already familiar with / I’ve been reading for a while, I am more interested in their recent posts. And I open the profiles of the latter more often than those of the former.
Perhaps you misunderstood me. It’s not about the images. I meant that this
is more time-consuming to browse through than a list like this
But now that I think about it more, maybe I’m overapplying the heuristics that I adopted for my email, and it’s nice to be able to read the preview without having to hover. But I still will want to scroll through posts sometimes, so some “collapse/show preview” button would be great to have.
ETA: I also loved being able to see the comments without opening the post, and this option is gone now on the profile page.
Yeah, if I am looking for a post with a specific name, or just “I think I wrote a post on this topic”, then seeing lots of article names is more useful than seeing only a few previews.
Perhaps add a checkbox “show previews”?
The flipside that made me excited about the current thing was “now, as I’m browsing posts, I actually have a chance of figuring out whether a post is good before clicking on it.” It’s not that there’s less information density, it’s that it’s differently distributed.
I think there should totally be a view for “dense reading of post titles”, but, it’s not the only thing I might want.
(My current guess is there should be a search filter, and if you’ve typed into the search filter, you get a more dense view)
Ah, yep, I did misunderstand you. Agree that that section is now less dense.
Yeah, I do also like this, and I might try to add something like it back, but it’s quite a bit of work (the “click on the comment icon to expand just the recent comments” interaction is among the most confusing interactions for new users, so it’s a bit tricky to get right).