= 27d567bc2d48d9f40e9ccc20ea370b15)
RichardKennaway comments on Open Thread, June 16-30, 2012 - Less Wrong
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
= 783df68a0f980790206b9ea87794c5b6)
Loading…= b715d02e85f7b3b4ae65ca3d3e450868)
Subscribe to RSS Feed
Powered by Reddit
= f037147d6e6c911a85753b9abdedda8d)
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
Comments (344)
Apparently it was a technical kludge to allow Google searching by author. There has been some discussion at the place where issues are reported.
Kludge indeed; and it is entirely unnecessary: Wei Dai's script already makes it easy to search a user's comment history.
I again urge those responsible to restore the prior appearance of the site (they can do what they want to the non-visible internals).
Wei Dai's tools are poorly documented, may not exist in the near future, and are virtually unknown to non-users.
No object-level justification can address the (even) more important meta-level point, which is that they made changes to the visual appearance of LW without consulting the community first. This is a no-no!
(And I have no doubt that, were a proper Discussion post created announcing this idea, LW's considerable programmer readership would have been able to come up with some solution that did not involve making such an ugly visual change.)
Design by a committee composed of conflicting vocal minorities? No thanks.
EDIT: Note that I don't disagree with you that this in particular was a bad design change. I disagree that consulting the community on every design change is a profitable policy.