I like most of the changes, but strongly dislike the large gap before the title. (I similarly dislike the large background in the top 50 of the year posts)
Well, the gap you actually want to measure is the gap between the title and the audio player (or at the very least the tags), since that’s the thing we need to make space for. You are clearly looking at LW on an extremely large screen. This is the more median experience:
There is still a bunch of space there, but for many posts the tags extend all the way above the post.
I understand that having the audio player above the title is the path of least resistance, since you can’t assume there is enough space on the right to put it in. But ideally things like this should be dynamic, and only take up vertical space if you can’t put it on the right, no? (but I’m not a frontend dev)
Alternatively, I would consider moving them vertically above the title a slight improvement. It is not great either, but at least the reason for having the gap is more obvious.
The above screenshots are done in a 1920x1080 monitor
Yeah, we could make things dynamic, it would just add complexity that we would need to check every time we make a change. It’s the kind of iterative improvement we might do over time, but it’s not something that should block the roll-out of a new design (and it’s often lower priority than other things, though post-pages in-particular are very important and so get a lot more attention than other pages).
I like most of the changes, but strongly dislike the large gap before the title. (I similarly dislike the large background in the top 50 of the year posts)
Well, the gap you actually want to measure is the gap between the title and the audio player (or at the very least the tags), since that’s the thing we need to make space for. You are clearly looking at LW on an extremely large screen. This is the more median experience:
There is still a bunch of space there, but for many posts the tags extend all the way above the post.
I understand that having the audio player above the title is the path of least resistance, since you can’t assume there is enough space on the right to put it in. But ideally things like this should be dynamic, and only take up vertical space if you can’t put it on the right, no? (but I’m not a frontend dev)
Alternatively, I would consider moving them vertically above the title a slight improvement. It is not great either, but at least the reason for having the gap is more obvious.
The above screenshots are done in a 1920x1080 monitor
Yeah, we could make things dynamic, it would just add complexity that we would need to check every time we make a change. It’s the kind of iterative improvement we might do over time, but it’s not something that should block the roll-out of a new design (and it’s often lower priority than other things, though post-pages in-particular are very important and so get a lot more attention than other pages).