I just wanted to comment and say, seeing your replies has made it very clear that you are listening, and I really appreciate that. When the changes originally went live, I assumed they were a final version and we wouldn't be seeing much else, especially since there wasn't a top-level or even discussion post about it. I think a post illustrating this attitude (and ideally listing the changes made thus far, and anything planned-but-incomplete) could be really helpful - I know I've relaxed a lot now that it's clear that (a) you're not finished and (b) you're open to feedback :)
Just my two cents, though. Just seeing the comments has done good by me, but I don't think everyone sees those.
(Choice of post to reply to arbitrary; this one just happened to flip my threshold of "okay, matt seems to genuinely be listening to people who complain, even when they're being very blunt")
Thank you. I'm feeling very short of warm fuzzies today, and every little bit helps.
When the changes originally went live, I assumed they were a final version and we wouldn't be seeing much else…
That seems to have been a very common assumption. I have found that surprising and am endeavoring to change minds on it. Writing a post would take me time I prefer to spend fixing issues, but I'm reaching out for help on managing the torrent of unhappy and expectations of future changes (I'm working today to try to decide what changes we should make, and we'll ...
I saw some discussion posts earlier talking about a LessWrong redesign, and now that things look different, I guess that it's been implemented. I'm always slightly annoyed for a while when a site I use gets redesigned because I have to relearn where everything is, but it eventually wears off once I'm used to the changes.
My initial impressions:
"Hmmm... it seems like the category menus have been replaced by dropdown menus. It's not like I used many of them anyway."
"Okay, I've clicked my name to see my recently posted comments. Now, where's the link to see it in context? Oh, I guess I have to click that icon in the lower right corner. For some reason I was looking for something at the upper right of the comment box."
"Well, that worked. Now how do I click to the parent comment? Oh, wait, it's probably one of those new icons in the lower right corner. I'll just mouseover them to see what they do..."
::realization sets in::
"AAUGH! LESSWRONG IS USING MYSTERY MEAT NAVIGATION!!!"
So, what does everyone else think of the new redesign?