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RichardKennaway comments on So, I guess the site redesign is live? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 22 June 2011 08:12:57AM *  4 points [-]

It'll do. I like that it highlights new comments (but I'm not too keen on how the highlighting is done -- the thick green border looks pale and fuzzy).

There are a few glitches (even after cache-clearing):

My username is long enough that the end disappears behind the "Create new article" button.

The number of comments on a post is no longer displayed except in the page for that post.

Loading lesswrong.com gives a page in which none of "Promoted", "New", "Top", or "Saved" is highlighted.

"Nearby meetings" shows a single meeting, in Australia. I am in the U.K. How is the site deciding what is "nearby"?

Is there any page I can go to to see all forthcoming meetups, regardless of location? If I was travelling, I might very well want to know of meetups not currently "nearby".

The foot of each comment seems to have too much empty space in it, especially for nested comments.

Comment author: matt 22 June 2011 07:38:05PM 11 points [-]

I have some good news:

I like that it highlights new comments (but I'm not too keen on how the highlighting is done -- the thick green border looks pale and fuzzy).

We'll review that styling.

My username is long enough that the end disappears behind the "Create new article" button.

Agreed - we'll fix that.

The number of comments on a post is no longer displayed except in the page for that post.

An oversight. We'll fix that.

Loading lesswrong.com gives a page in which none of "Promoted", "New", "Top", or "Saved" is highlighted.

Changes coming to lesswrong.com - they didn't quite make the presses.

"Nearby meetings" shows a single meeting, in Australia. I am in the U.K. How is the site deciding what is "nearby"?

Of the set of 3 meetups that have been entered into the new system, those are the 3 closest. That list will likely look much better in a few days (as others enter new meetups to the new system).

Is there any page I can go to to see all forthcoming meetups, regardless of location? If I was travelling, I might very well want to know of meetups not currently "nearby".

Click the meetups title in the sidebar.
We have a feature we didn't quite get to to honour the location you can enter on your profile over geoip.

The foot of each comment seems to have too much empty space in it, especially for nested comments.

Hmm… there seems to be a lot of unhappy being directed at the icons down there. We'll review.

Comment author: MixedNuts 23 June 2011 08:00:25AM 7 points [-]

Will_Newsome points out that we haven't thanked you. Some of us have thought of listing changes they liked as well as changes they disliked, some of us have thought of correcting for bias against change, some of us have thought of simply not being jerks. But we haven't thought of thanking you.

So, thanks. Thanks for making LW better. Thanks for working on new ideas even if you'll get bitten if they're bad and ignored if they're good. Thanks for taking criticism into account. Thanks for being nice even when criticism isn't of the form "Changes A through F rock, changes G and H are neutral, change I annoys me but that seems personal, change J was a bad idea, change K was good but change K' would have been better", but of the form "You suck".

You're awesome. Have some karma.

Comment author: matt 24 June 2011 01:22:16AM 1 point [-]

Thank you. That helps.
I'm working on collating opinion today, and we expect to be working on further changes and some reversions early next week.

Comment author: Emile 23 June 2011 01:48:38PM *  1 point [-]

The foot of each comment seems to have too much empty space in it, especially for nested comments.

Hmm… there seems to be a lot of unhappy being directed at the icons down there. We'll review.

I'm pretty sure he's not referring to the icons, but to the bottom of stacks of nested comments, like in this screenshot

Comment author: matt 24 June 2011 12:26:33AM 1 point [-]

Thanks. I think there are two issues there - the normal padding and that the comments-new-since-your-last-visit styling consumes extra space. We'll fix the latter, and will review the former.