I do not like the icons. I want them to be words.
The colors will take some getting used to but I don't really hate them.
The extra linebreaks on the right sidebar annoy me.
And we still can't view upvotes and downvotes separately on comments argh.
Words mess up with search engines: "vote", "parent", "child", "date"… There was a comments some months ago about just that. LessWrong looks like democratic astrology to Google. It may suck, but those words have to be removed if we want to change that.
Now there may be a solution if there was a way to use CSS to reintroduce words in a way that search engines don' see them (before and after pseudo attributes). But such a strategy might be interpreted as Black Hat SEO, so…
I saw some discussion posts earlier talking about a LessWrong redesign, and now that things look different, I guess that it's been implemented. I'm always slightly annoyed for a while when a site I use gets redesigned because I have to relearn where everything is, but it eventually wears off once I'm used to the changes.
My initial impressions:
"Hmmm... it seems like the category menus have been replaced by dropdown menus. It's not like I used many of them anyway."
"Okay, I've clicked my name to see my recently posted comments. Now, where's the link to see it in context? Oh, I guess I have to click that icon in the lower right corner. For some reason I was looking for something at the upper right of the comment box."
"Well, that worked. Now how do I click to the parent comment? Oh, wait, it's probably one of those new icons in the lower right corner. I'll just mouseover them to see what they do..."
::realization sets in::
"AAUGH! LESSWRONG IS USING MYSTERY MEAT NAVIGATION!!!"
So, what does everyone else think of the new redesign?