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48 Post author: matt 24 June 2011 03:50AM

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 24 June 2011 02:32:32PM *  1 point [-]

Here's my number one comment, and the one thing I'd want to see modified: - With the current style, the "Upcoming Meetups" change has squeezed down "Recent Comments" and "Recent Posts" to the second page. This is disastrous for my participation in the site -- I expect a drastic reduction in my participation for the mere reason that I can no longer see at a glance if there's a new comment or a new post, that I might want to respond to.

Secondary comments:

  • Keep "Vote up" "Vote Down" as icons, but move them next to the comments' score (to place them in context).

  • Change the reply icon into the word "REPLY". Our brain is already in text mode after reading a comment, when we want to reply to it, the word REPLY needs stick out from the other icons, we don't want to have to be searching which icon is which.

  • Keep the other icons as icons. (don't treat my suggestion for reverting "REPLY" as a suggestion to change ALL the icons back)

  • Light green ought be darker. Light grey ought be darker. Don't force our eyes to have to distinguish between such slight variations of different white.

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 24 June 2011 05:16:34PM 0 points [-]

The icons are all at the bottom (good) and have tooltips (good). The reply icon is conventional, so I don't mind it. However, it's smaller (narrower) than it could be (whether it has text or not).

I understand the voting use case you have in mind; some people may read the comment, then check its rating and vote only if it's "too high" or "too low". And there's a certain logic to having the up and down near the score it will affect.

If you vote independently of the current score, it's fine.