I’m extremely upset about recent divergence from ForumMagnum / LessWrong.
1 click to go from any page to my profile became 2 clicks. (is the argument that you looked at the clickstream dashboard and found that Quinn was the only person navigating to his profile noticeably more than he was navigating to say DMs or new post? I go to my profile a lot to look up prior comments so I can not repeat myself across discord servers or threads as much!)
moving upvote downvote to the left. and removing it from the bottom! this seems opposite to me: we want more people upvoting/downvoting at the bottom of the posts (presumably to decrease voting on things without actually reading) and less people voting at the top!
I’m neutral on QuickTakes rebrand: I’m a huge fan of shortform overall (if I was Dictator of Big EA I would ban twitter and facebook and move everybody to to shortform/quicktake!), I trust y’all to do whatever you can to increase adoption.
Thanks for sharing your feedback! Responding to each point:
I removed the profile button link because I found it slightly annoying that opening that menu on mobile also navigates you to your profile, plus I think it’s unusual UX for the user menu button to also be a link.
We recently changed this back, so now both the timestamp and the link icon navigate you to the comment permalink. We’ll probably change the link icon to copy the link to your clipboard instead.
We didn’t change the criteria for whether the vote arrows appear at the bottom of a post—we still use the same threshold (post is >300 words) as LW does. We did move the vote arrows from the right side of the title to the left side of the title on the post page. This makes the post page header more visually consistent with the post list item, which also has the karma info on the left of the title.
I’m extremely upset about recent divergence from ForumMagnum / LessWrong.
1 click to go from any page to my profile became 2 clicks. (is the argument that you looked at the clickstream dashboard and found that Quinn was the only person navigating to his profile noticeably more than he was navigating to say DMs or new post? I go to my profile a lot to look up prior comments so I can not repeat myself across discord servers or threads as much!)
permalink in the top right corner of comment, instead of clicking the timestamp (David Mears suggests that we’re in violation of industry standard now)
moving upvote downvote to the left. and removing it from the bottom! this seems opposite to me: we want more people upvoting/downvoting at the bottom of the posts (presumably to decrease voting on things without actually reading) and less people voting at the top!
I’m neutral on QuickTakes rebrand: I’m a huge fan of shortform overall (if I was Dictator of Big EA I would ban twitter and facebook and move everybody to to shortform/quicktake!), I trust y’all to do whatever you can to increase adoption.
Thanks for sharing your feedback! Responding to each point:
I removed the profile button link because I found it slightly annoying that opening that menu on mobile also navigates you to your profile, plus I think it’s unusual UX for the user menu button to also be a link.
We recently changed this back, so now both the timestamp and the link icon navigate you to the comment permalink. We’ll probably change the link icon to copy the link to your clipboard instead.
We didn’t change the criteria for whether the vote arrows appear at the bottom of a post—we still use the same threshold (post is >300 words) as LW does. We did move the vote arrows from the right side of the title to the left side of the title on the post page. This makes the post page header more visually consistent with the post list item, which also has the karma info on the left of the title.