I noticed some problems with LW interface, quick list
(Ep status: follow my intuition, by saying “you” instead of “I” mean that I expect that these intuitions will be shared by a lot of other users)
Priority for me of these are such items where using is still very inconvenient, not just hard to understand for new users. There are: 1 - reactions, 2 - markdown OR colours (I don’t know, mb obsidian solves markdown)
On android
I have no Intercom on Android, property checked, on PC I do have
Reactions
inline reaction button shows up outside of page bounds, so I need to scroll
ordinary reaction oppositely show the menu outside of screen bounds, so I can’t even scroll
inline reaction phrases aren’t underlined anymore, so it’s hard to find them and if something shows on the right, it’s out of page bounds.
User profile button shows you a pop-over while I expect redirection, that confuses me each time
Generally
Colours
Where all the COLOURS? What’s wrong with them? Why to decolourise the site so hardly? I’d expected precisely opposite thing, add colours, you know, like in IDE, to recognise page elements easier.
I in the first thought I checked some anti colour option in settings, but no
Settings
There is this HUGE place next to “submit” button, but instead of adding “rules” button (which shows pop-over), there is non-selectable text about “what you should enter directly into URL line”
Notifications specific setting are not grouped into collapsable list. AND “remove negative karma” and “batch notifications” options go ONLY AFTER it. (so I just missed them earlier)
You have this whole list of collapsable option lists and AFTER all of it, little, not standing out button written “submit”, like you can open “new option types to site coders suggestion” by that. Instead of floating, bright button “save” and warning if you are leaving the page without saving data.
Actually, it’s how LW itself works for comments. It even has autosaves! What’s the problem to do it for settings?
Reveal check for facilitation option is totally obscure for me in what it does. And has no pop-over tooltip more detailed explanation.
Hide people names option is totally useless for quick takes list page, because it shows names like “X’s Shortform”
It also could be useful if you could hide-before-hover karma… and probably agrees and reactions. Just show post, comments in sorting order depending on their karma etc and collapse expectedly useless things. Though, even if hide concrete reactions, it would be good to see their existance in principle, and by inlines.
Markdown
Quick takes interface definitely shows NO markdown or visual. And again, why?
Also, why markdown/visual switch is not default for editor?
And if markdown/docs conversion is lossy, why is it pick-up pop-over, instead of “convert to []” button?
Markdown not just hides shows when you select a word, in an intuitive way (for example, like it’s done in obsidian), it “compiles” and next refuse to be removed and… very inconvenient
Mb I just should write in Obsidian and paste.
Sorting
Also I understood why me and some another people didn’t know that LW has filtering options for posts. Different modes look like different modes of sorting, not like different tabs, so you don’t expect that you will lose any hint on filtering after switching to “Recommended” (which sort of subconsciously reads like it’s recommended by LW authors sorting mode to pick, not recommended posts).
It would be more intuitive if modes were tabs, not pick buttons (like, overlap on each other? Show content as being inside of button?). Or it could be pick pop-over, but I like such design less, and I don’t think that without showing-it-as-a-content it would be more legible.
Also it may be better if Enriched option had settings gear on it to show that it HAS settings even if it’s not selected.
Notifications: when I subscribe on someone’s short form, notification says that somebody replied on my comment instead
That sort of sounds like I complain about site not being able to read my thoughts (or vice versa), but a lot of soft which was otherwise much more poorly designed, iirc was able to do it, was intuitive/conventional in all such things OR had guides and warnings. Idk mb it’s just a question of higher count of fail fix iteration with higher amount of users.
And also when I visited site from PC I got visual editor pane. (markdown editor setting was not changed yet) And I still have NO idea why after that it also suddenly appeared on phone where it never appeared before.
I noticed some problems with LW interface, quick list
(Ep status: follow my intuition, by saying “you” instead of “I” mean that I expect that these intuitions will be shared by a lot of other users)
Priority for me of these are such items where using is still very inconvenient, not just hard to understand for new users. There are: 1 - reactions, 2 - markdown OR colours (I don’t know, mb obsidian solves markdown)
On android
I have no Intercom on Android, property checked, on PC I do have
Reactions
inline reaction button shows up outside of page bounds, so I need to scroll
ordinary reaction oppositely show the menu outside of screen bounds, so I can’t even scroll
inline reaction phrases aren’t underlined anymore, so it’s hard to find them and if something shows on the right, it’s out of page bounds.
User profile button shows you a pop-over while I expect redirection, that confuses me each time
Generally
Colours
Where all the COLOURS? What’s wrong with them? Why to decolourise the site so hardly? I’d expected precisely opposite thing, add colours, you know, like in IDE, to recognise page elements easier.
I in the first thought I checked some anti colour option in settings, but no
Settings
There is this HUGE place next to “submit” button, but instead of adding “rules” button (which shows pop-over), there is non-selectable text about “what you should enter directly into URL line”
Notifications specific setting are not grouped into collapsable list. AND “remove negative karma” and “batch notifications” options go ONLY AFTER it. (so I just missed them earlier)
You have this whole list of collapsable option lists and AFTER all of it, little, not standing out button written “submit”, like you can open “new option types to site coders suggestion” by that. Instead of floating, bright button “save” and warning if you are leaving the page without saving data.
Actually, it’s how LW itself works for comments. It even has autosaves! What’s the problem to do it for settings?
Reveal check for facilitation option is totally obscure for me in what it does. And has no pop-over tooltip more detailed explanation.
Hide people names option is totally useless for quick takes list page, because it shows names like “X’s Shortform”
It also could be useful if you could hide-before-hover karma… and probably agrees and reactions. Just show post, comments in sorting order depending on their karma etc and collapse expectedly useless things. Though, even if hide concrete reactions, it would be good to see their existance in principle, and by inlines.
Markdown
Quick takes interface definitely shows NO markdown or visual. And again, why?
Also, why markdown/visual switch is not default for editor?
And if markdown/docs conversion is lossy, why is it pick-up pop-over, instead of “convert to []” button?
Markdown not just hides shows when you select a word, in an intuitive way (for example, like it’s done in obsidian), it “compiles” and next refuse to be removed and… very inconvenient
Mb I just should write in Obsidian and paste.
Sorting
Also I understood why me and some another people didn’t know that LW has filtering options for posts. Different modes look like different modes of sorting, not like different tabs, so you don’t expect that you will lose any hint on filtering after switching to “Recommended” (which sort of subconsciously reads like it’s recommended by LW authors sorting mode to pick, not recommended posts).
It would be more intuitive if modes were tabs, not pick buttons (like, overlap on each other? Show content as being inside of button?). Or it could be pick pop-over, but I like such design less, and I don’t think that without showing-it-as-a-content it would be more legible.
Also it may be better if Enriched option had settings gear on it to show that it HAS settings even if it’s not selected.
Notifications: when I subscribe on someone’s short form, notification says that somebody replied on my comment instead
That sort of sounds like I complain about site not being able to read my thoughts (or vice versa), but a lot of soft which was otherwise much more poorly designed, iirc was able to do it, was intuitive/conventional in all such things OR had guides and warnings. Idk mb it’s just a question of higher count of fail fix iteration with higher amount of users.
And also when I visited site from PC I got visual editor pane. (markdown editor setting was not changed yet) And I still have NO idea why after that it also suddenly appeared on phone where it never appeared before.