On old-LW, my username at top right is an ordinary link, so I can use it to (e.g.) open a new tab showing my profile without leaving the page I’m currently on. (Example scenario: I’m writing a comment, I think “I’m sure I said something relevant a little while ago”, so I want to go and find that earlier comment to see. I don’t want to leave the page I’m on, though, I want it in a new tab.)
On LW2, it’s a magic thing that provides a drop-down menu. That makes it easier to create a new post, edit my account info, or log out; but it makes it harder to look at my profile page.
For me—and I appreciate that my preferences may differ from others’—“visit profile page in a new tab” is an operation I want to do every couple of days, whereas the other things I want to do (at most) every few weeks.
It might be worth considering making that top-right username just be a link, and making sure that from the profile page one can do all those things currently in the drop-down menu.
On old-LW, my username at top right is an ordinary link, so I can use it to (e.g.) open a new tab showing my profile without leaving the page I’m currently on. (Example scenario: I’m writing a comment, I think “I’m sure I said something relevant a little while ago”, so I want to go and find that earlier comment to see. I don’t want to leave the page I’m on, though, I want it in a new tab.)
On LW2, it’s a magic thing that provides a drop-down menu. That makes it easier to create a new post, edit my account info, or log out; but it makes it harder to look at my profile page.
For me—and I appreciate that my preferences may differ from others’—“visit profile page in a new tab” is an operation I want to do every couple of days, whereas the other things I want to do (at most) every few weeks.
It might be worth considering making that top-right username just be a link, and making sure that from the profile page one can do all those things currently in the drop-down menu.