Vladimir_Nesov comments on New Singularity.org - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 18 June 2012 03:42:57PM *  13 points [-]
  • The "What we do" page contains three short summarizing sentences, but no links to further information. A tiny bug: the second picture has alt text "photo_what_we_do_2".
  • On the "Get involved" page, there are "read more" links, but the impulse is to click on the pictures. These should lead to the same places as "Read more". Ditto for pictures at the bottom of "Media" and on the "About" page, and the picture through the "Read our blog" link in the header of all pages. There is also a phrase "Another important way you can help is by reading these important papers". Too much "important" (I'd cut both).
  • Of the first three buttons in the menu, two are "Donate" and "Get involved", with only mostly content-less "What we do" in between. This doesn't seem optimal for new visitors, who first need to be convinced that what SingInst does is worthwhile (and what it is, exactly).
  • Is there a good reason for the auto-hiding of pictures on the "Media" page? (For example, it might really look worse if shown all at once...) It looks out-of-place, an unnecessary cog. Also, "no GD" at top-left corners of all pictures (what does this represent?) reads like "no good", which is no good.
  • A lot of empty space on "Research" before the section "What to Read First", due to vertical arrangement of paper categories.
  • The few-pages-long meaningful summary of SingInst's mission was hard to find. I eventually found it by googling; on the site it turns out to be linked from the top of the "Research" page in a list together with outgoing links to other sites, so in my mind it got categorized as extra-content and as a result I didn't notice it when looking for the introduction. Should probably be set apart somehow, with more words to draw attention to it.
Comment author: lukeprog 19 June 2012 06:13:37AM 1 point [-]

A lot of empty space on "Research" before the section "What to Read First", due to vertical arrangement of paper categories.

I wasn't sure there was a better arrangement. I do want to break up the papers into categories like that. Do you have any suggestions?

Also, the media page is fixed now.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 19 June 2012 12:09:37PM *  0 points [-]

Use horizontal arrangement, with pictures on the left and lists of papers on the right of the pictures, as some kind of bullet list instead of the horizontal line separators, and with fixed left margin/table column (so that the lists keep the left margin and don't flow around the pictures). Stack the three categories one below another. Not sure how that'd look though, but the extra-space problem will go away.

Anyway, the issue is already mostly fixed with the papers placed at the bottom, and the summary link is visible now.

Comment author: lukeprog 19 June 2012 03:35:52AM 0 points [-]

A tiny bug: the second picture has alt text "photowhatwedo2".

Fixed.

Too much "important" (I'd cut both).

Fixed.

Is there a good reason for the auto-hiding of pictures on the "Media" page?

Broken upon moving to our server, waiting on designer to fix.

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