I like the LW emoji palette, but it is too much. Reading forum posts and parsing through comments can be mentally taxing. I don’t want to spend additional effort going through a list of forty-something emojis and buttons to react to something, especially comments. I am often pressed for time, so almost always I would avoid the LW emoji palette entirely. Maybe a few other important reactions can be added instead of all of them? Or maybe there could be a setting which allows people to choose if they want to see a “condensed” or “extended” emoji palette? Either way, just my two cents.
I agree EAF shouldn’t have a LW-sized palette, much less LW’s specific palette. I want EAF to have a palette that reflects its culture as well as LW’s palette reflects its culture. And I think that’s going to take more than 4 reacts (note that my original comment mortifyingly used a special palette made for a single post, the new version has the normal EAF reacts of helpful, insightful, changed my mind, and heart), but way less than is in the LW palette.
I do think part of LessWrong’s culture is preferring to have too many options rather than making do with the wrong one. I know the team has worked really hard to keep reacts to a manageable level, while making most of them very precise, while covering a wide swath of how people want to react. I think they’ve done an admirable job (full disclosure: I’m technically on the mod team and give opinions in slack, but that’s basically the limit of my power). This is something I really appreciate about LW, but I know shrinks its audience.
I like the LW emoji palette, but it is too much. Reading forum posts and parsing through comments can be mentally taxing. I don’t want to spend additional effort going through a list of forty-something emojis and buttons to react to something, especially comments. I am often pressed for time, so almost always I would avoid the LW emoji palette entirely. Maybe a few other important reactions can be added instead of all of them? Or maybe there could be a setting which allows people to choose if they want to see a “condensed” or “extended” emoji palette? Either way, just my two cents.
I agree EAF shouldn’t have a LW-sized palette, much less LW’s specific palette. I want EAF to have a palette that reflects its culture as well as LW’s palette reflects its culture. And I think that’s going to take more than 4 reacts (note that my original comment mortifyingly used a special palette made for a single post, the new version has the normal EAF reacts of helpful, insightful, changed my mind, and heart), but way less than is in the LW palette.
I do think part of LessWrong’s culture is preferring to have too many options rather than making do with the wrong one. I know the team has worked really hard to keep reacts to a manageable level, while making most of them very precise, while covering a wide swath of how people want to react. I think they’ve done an admirable job (full disclosure: I’m technically on the mod team and give opinions in slack, but that’s basically the limit of my power). This is something I really appreciate about LW, but I know shrinks its audience.
I’m not on LW very often, how frequently do you see these emojis being used?
From a UX perspective, I agree with Akash—it seems like there are way too many options and my prior is that people wouldn’t use >80% of them.