Official Less Wrong Redesign: Nearly there

matt

Design sketches

1. Notes on differences between these images and what we're planning on implementing:

2. Meetup widget in sidebar, listing the 5 nearest meetups occurring in the next 2 weeks, linking to:
(something like right-click & "Open Image in new tab" will help here)

3. New headers:

Design sketches

1. Notes on differences between these images and what we're planning on implementing:

2. Meetup widget in sidebar, listing the 5 nearest meetups occurring in the next 2 weeks, linking to:
(something like right-click & "Open Image in new tab" will help here)

3. New headers:

Things I don't like:

1. Disappearance of the background art in the heading.

2. "Discussion" tab is right next to "Comments". This may be confusing to visitors, who will not immediately know the difference.

3. The bolding scheme in the Recent Comments sidebar, which is

Alicorn on Theism, Wednesday, and Not Being Adopted

instead of

Alicorn on Theism, Wednesday, and Not Being Adopted

(the current) or

Alicorn on Theism, Wednesday, and Not Being Adopted

4. The fact that comment scores have been moved from the top of the comment boxes to the bottom. This makes visual scanning by score harder.

5. Upvote/Downvote/Agree/Disagree buttons are not clearly labeled. They should be labeled with words, as they are now, not pictures, and also put next to each other, to remind people that there are two categories of voting and prevent new users from noticing only one of them.

6. I'm not sure I like the two categories of voting -- a change in this area will change the existing status dynamics, to which my brain is already accustomed.

7. There seems to be more bright whiteness in the new design, as opposed to the "gray" feeling of the current scheme.

8. What's wrong with bullets?

8 separate points in this comment, and 9 upvotes. I can't tell which of your points has community support, so I'm discounting all of them.
That's a shame - I'm losing a lot of information. Next time, 8 separate comments?

PS: "discount" != "ignore"

4SarahNibs15y

Why oh why can't we have a way of bringing information that would be good for people to see into their view without turning the underlying system into "status dynamics"? :( I don't care that karma is currently descriptively status, let's figure out what we want to do, then how to implement it so the useful behavior doesn't get hijacked by the status parasite. Edit: Here's what I want, off-the-cuff: I want a classifier for posts that buckets them into "definitely not worth anyone's time", "friggin' awesome and everyone on LW and probably elsewhere should read this", and "the rest". I would like a classifier for comments that buckets them into "troll or hopeless", "important part of the conversation", "practically a required addendum to the post", and "the rest". I would like another classifier for comments that buckets them into "hilarious or otherwise worth reading", "may cause loss of brain cells by reading", and "the rest". I would like a way to tell the author of a post or a comment "you are awesome". I would like a way to tell the potential readers of a post or a comment "you will find this an important part of the conversation" or "you do not need to read this". I would like a way to tell the potential readers of a post or comment "this is hilarious or awesome" or "this is distasteful". I would not like these things to be conflated.

4Clippy15y

The paperclips forgone to make them.

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