I think I prefer the status quo design, but not very strongly. Between the two designs pictured here, I at first preferred the one where the authors weren’t bolded, but now I think I prefer the one where the whole line is bolded, since “[insert author whose posts I enjoy] has posted something” is as newsworthy as “there’s a post called [title I find enticing]”.
Something I’ve noticed about myself is that I tend to underestimate how much I can get used to things, so I might end up just as happy with whichever design is chosen.
Fwiw, for reasons I can’t explain I vastly prefer just the title bolded to the entire line bolded, and significantly prefer the status quo to title bolded.
I initially wanted “bold everywhere” because it helped my brain reliably parse things as “this is a bold line” instead of “this is a line with some bold parts but you have to hunt for them”. But, after experimenting a bit I started to feeling having bold elements semi-randomly distributed across the lines made it a lot busier.
Alternate version where only the title and karma are bolded:
I think I prefer the status quo design, but not very strongly. Between the two designs pictured here, I at first preferred the one where the authors weren’t bolded, but now I think I prefer the one where the whole line is bolded, since “[insert author whose posts I enjoy] has posted something” is as newsworthy as “there’s a post called [title I find enticing]”.
Something I’ve noticed about myself is that I tend to underestimate how much I can get used to things, so I might end up just as happy with whichever design is chosen.
Fwiw, for reasons I can’t explain I vastly prefer just the title bolded to the entire line bolded, and significantly prefer the status quo to title bolded.
I think I prefer bolding full lines b/c it makes it easier to see who authored what?
I initially wanted “bold everywhere” because it helped my brain reliably parse things as “this is a bold line” instead of “this is a line with some bold parts but you have to hunt for them”. But, after experimenting a bit I started to feeling having bold elements semi-randomly distributed across the lines made it a lot busier.