Great work! I especially like the “new since last visit” highlight; that will help following conversations across multiple visits quite a bit. That said, as Armok_GoB observed,
There is something which seem more… cold and hard somewhat than the current aesthetic, which is bad, but otherwise it seems great.
I noticed that too. I’m not sure why, exactly, but I have a few hypotheses. It could be that the shade of green has changed (it’s darker and more saturated now). I’m neutral on this change. Another big difference is that the sidebar has greatly increased in contrast, turned almost entirely bold, and become double spaced; all of these changes serve to make it more prominent than it was.
There’s also something different about the font rendering (it’s less crisp), but I suspect it’s just a browser difference; when I zoomed in on a screenshot of LW as it is now I saw color bands that indicate sub-pixel smoothing, but when I zoomed in on the screenshot it was monochromatic.
And finally, a few nitpicks with which you may or may not agree. The bullets on the sidebar probably shouldn’t sometimes be green, the Hall of Fame list is too far right, the Recent Posts and Recent Comments boxes should be shifted one bullet-width right to align with the other boxes even if they don’t have bullets so that they’re aligned. The space between the article title and the header image has a bit too much padding in general. The ‘report’ exclamation point should have its top and bottom aligned with the ‘save’ icon. The unbolded-green karma scores in the Hall of Fame are a font-color-boldness combination that doesn’t appear anywhere else, and it seems weird (why would the score be a link but not the name? Or is it?).
Great work! I especially like the “new since last visit” highlight; that will help following conversations across multiple visits quite a bit. That said, as Armok_GoB observed,
I noticed that too. I’m not sure why, exactly, but I have a few hypotheses. It could be that the shade of green has changed (it’s darker and more saturated now). I’m neutral on this change. Another big difference is that the sidebar has greatly increased in contrast, turned almost entirely bold, and become double spaced; all of these changes serve to make it more prominent than it was.
There’s also something different about the font rendering (it’s less crisp), but I suspect it’s just a browser difference; when I zoomed in on a screenshot of LW as it is now I saw color bands that indicate sub-pixel smoothing, but when I zoomed in on the screenshot it was monochromatic.
And finally, a few nitpicks with which you may or may not agree. The bullets on the sidebar probably shouldn’t sometimes be green, the Hall of Fame list is too far right, the Recent Posts and Recent Comments boxes should be shifted one bullet-width right to align with the other boxes even if they don’t have bullets so that they’re aligned. The space between the article title and the header image has a bit too much padding in general. The ‘report’ exclamation point should have its top and bottom aligned with the ‘save’ icon. The unbolded-green karma scores in the Hall of Fame are a font-color-boldness combination that doesn’t appear anywhere else, and it seems weird (why would the score be a link but not the name? Or is it?).