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In an attempt to get myself to write more here is my own shortform feed. Ideally I would write something daily, but we will see how it goes.
We are rolling out some new designs for the post page:
Old:
New:
The key goal was to prioritize the most important information and declutter the page.
The most opinionated choice I made was to substantially de-emphasize karma at the top of the post page. I am not totally sure whether that is the right choice, but I think the primary purpose of karma is to use it to decide what to read before you click on a post, which makes it less important to be super prominent when you are already on a post page, or when you are following a link from some external website.
The bottom of the post still has very prominent karma UI to make it easy for people to vote after they finished reading a post (and to calibrate on reception before reading the comments).
This redesign also gives us more space in the right column, which we will soon be filling with new side-note UI and an improved inline-react experience.
The mobile UI is mostly left the same, though we did make the decision to remove post-tags from the top of the mobile UI page to only making them visible below the post, because they took up too much space.
Feel free to comment here with feedback. I expect we will be iterating on the new design quite actively over the coming days and weeks.
I ~always want to see the outline when I first open a post and when I'm reading/skimming through it. I wish the outline appeared when-not-hover-over-ing for me.
4Yoav Ravid
I am really missing the word counter. It's something I look at quite a lot (less so on reading time estimates, as I got used to making the estimate myself based on the wordcount).
[anonymous]10
same here, even 5 months later.
this comment from the time says the word counter is still there but i can't find it anywhere. (edit: nvm, it's visible on the frontpage hoverover.)
( @habryka because comments on others' comments don't notify by default. while i'm at it, also your username doesn't show when i enter "@habryka")
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In an attempt to get myself to write more here is my own shortform feed. Ideally I would write something daily, but we will see how it goes.