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It's just... too big. I should have said it in the last thread, but I didn't want to look like a fuddy-duddy: I do not like this, I find it absolutely reprehensible, it makes me a lot disappointed and a little bit sick, and I'm not sure how alone I am in this because no other dissenting voices spoke up at all. But that's a weak sort of thing to say, so I'll make the fair-ish assumption that I'm completely alone in hating this new front page. In that regard I demur my objections in-general and raise a smaller one:
Does it have to take up the entire horizontal space? Would it be too much a sacrifice to halve its x and y dimensions?
Yeah. It doesn't help that 'Less Wrong is a' is invisible on my monitor until I scroll down. And then I'm like... 'what the hell is this brain doing here, oh, I see what they were trying to do.'
Oh, you're not alone. I liked the previous layout much better; I didn't speak up because I haven't been reading Discussion much, but I totally don't see the need for this brain thingie.
"Rationality materials" leading to meetup stuff makes no sense to me.
Sequences need to be more promiment. They're the main value of this site really.
Having to scroll down to see the rest of the information is annoying, and I can just barely see "Welcome...", which seems like it should be the first thing I see. It could be a lot better, and I like the idea of halving the image.
I'm convinced. We'll experiment with a smaller brain soon.
I didn't see the previous discussion, which is why i didn't speak up there, but I agree completely. It is way too big. I suppose I could just bookmark the recent promoted articles page and go there instead.
Can we encourage people to speak up if they are in informed disagreement with consensus, and trust the rationalist community to call them out if they are wrong?
There's no harm in having a minority opinion or getting called out for being incorrect, but we definitely want to hear about arguments that might make us change our minds, or a valuable additional data point of an observer's assessment of the evidence.
As long as we don't hesitate to justify the consensus, it seems like more dissent is good, not bad.