In the next month, the administrators of Less Wrong are going to sit down with a professional designer to tweak the site design. But before they do, now is your chance to make suggestions that will guide their redesign efforts.
How can we improve the Less Wrong user experience? What features aren’t working? What features don’t exist? What would you change about the layout, templates, images, navigation, comment nesting, post/comment editing, side-bars, RSS feeds, color schemes, etc? Do you have specific CSS or HTML changes you'd make to improve load time, SEO, or other valuable metrics?
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Here's another proposal for dealing with meetups: some sort of prominent widget that will show (only upcoming) meetups in chronological order, with links:
Upcoming Meetups
* Thu, April 21 — Cambridge, MA, US
* Fri, April 22 — Pittsburgh, PA, US
* Sat, April 23 — Austin, TX, US
* Mon, April 25 — New York, NY, US
* Tue, April 26 — New York, NY, US
* Wed, April 27 — Berkeley, CA, US
* Thu, April 28 — New York, NY, US
* Thu, April 28 — Mountain View, CA, US
* Sat, April 30 — Shanghai, CN
* Sat, April 30 — Paris, FR
* Sun, May 1 — London, UK
* Sun, May 1 — Cambridge, MA, US
* Wed, May 4 — Research Triangle, NC, US
* Wed, May 4 — Berkeley, CA, US
* Thu, May 5 — Mountain View, CA, US
* Fri, May 6 — Melbourne, AU
* Wed May 11 — Berkeley, CA, US
* Thu, May 12 — Mountain View, CA, US
* Sun, May 15 — Cambridge, MA, US
7Spurlock
I also posted about this a while ago. My recommendation is that there be a user preference menu shown when signing up (and editable later):
-=Menu=-
[ ] Show all upcoming meetups
[ ] Show only meetups in my area (reveals form for inputting area)
[ ] Don't show upcoming meetups
In the next month, the administrators of Less Wrong are going to sit down with a professional designer to tweak the site design. But before they do, now is your chance to make suggestions that will guide their redesign efforts.
How can we improve the Less Wrong user experience? What features aren’t working? What features don’t exist? What would you change about the layout, templates, images, navigation, comment nesting, post/comment editing, side-bars, RSS feeds, color schemes, etc? Do you have specific CSS or HTML changes you'd make to improve load time, SEO, or other valuable metrics?
The rules for this thread are:
BUT DON’T JUMP TO THE COMMENTS JUST YET: Take a few minutes to collect your thoughts and write down your own ideas before reading others’ suggestions. Less contamination = more unique ideas + better feature coverage!
Thanks for your help!