There’s something about reading the new style that makes me uncomfortable, and prompts me to skim some posts that I would have read more carefully on the old site. I’m not too clear on what causes that effect. I’m guessing that some of it is the excessive amount of white, causing modest sensory overload.
Some of it could be the fact that less of a post fits on a single screenful: I probably form initial guesses about a post’s value based on the first screenful, and putting less substance on that first screenful leads me to guess that the post has less substance. Or maybe I associate large fonts with click-baity sites, and small fonts with more intellectual sites.
The editor used for writing comments is really annoying. E.g. links expand to include unrelated text, or unexpectedly stop being links.
I want a way to enter html and/or markup that I can cut and paste after writing them in an editor with which I’m more comfortable. Without that, I’ll probably give up on writing comments that are more thoughtful than Facebook comments.
I presume the new karma system will be an important improvement. I’m unhappy that it’s bundled with such large changes to aspects of the UI that were working adequately.
I think your point about less information per screen identifies what has been bothering me. It makes it much harder to skim or to refer back to previous paragraphs.
There’s something about reading the new style that makes me uncomfortable, and prompts me to skim some posts that I would have read more carefully on the old site. I’m not too clear on what causes that effect. I’m guessing that some of it is the excessive amount of white, causing modest sensory overload.
Some of it could be the fact that less of a post fits on a single screenful: I probably form initial guesses about a post’s value based on the first screenful, and putting less substance on that first screenful leads me to guess that the post has less substance. Or maybe I associate large fonts with click-baity sites, and small fonts with more intellectual sites.
The editor used for writing comments is really annoying. E.g. links expand to include unrelated text, or unexpectedly stop being links.
I want a way to enter html and/or markup that I can cut and paste after writing them in an editor with which I’m more comfortable. Without that, I’ll probably give up on writing comments that are more thoughtful than Facebook comments.
I presume the new karma system will be an important improvement. I’m unhappy that it’s bundled with such large changes to aspects of the UI that were working adequately.
I think your point about less information per screen identifies what has been bothering me. It makes it much harder to skim or to refer back to previous paragraphs.