Also, echoing other users who said it’s too hard to find anything. I have no idea how I would, say, scroll through the chronological archives. (And there should *be* chronological archives. Think standard features available on a blog, or Reddit, or StackExchange—chronological archives, per user archives, search, etc.)
I don’t like the whole “load more” thing. Having discrete pages is definitely preferable, it doesn’t end up with some godawful amount of stuff displayed at once, and more easily allows one to skip through. (One problem with old LW was that if you wanted to, say, look through all of a user’s comments, all you could do is page through; there was no way to skip to the end. We need more stuff like that. Right now it seems we have even less.)
Edit: Also the interface is too hard to read. The old interface was colorful and readable; this one just all blends together. I like the new bars on the side, but where’s the old Reddit-style alternating colors? And why are the names, points, times, etc so small? (Not to mention the *buttions*! The reply button is *tiny*!)
Edit again: Also when you upvote or downvote something, the green that it turns is damn near unnoticeable (especially on those tiny buttons on comments rather than posts). Please use something more distinct. (Also, voting is too slow.)
Also: I really really do not like the rich text editor. Rich text editors are a pain in the ass; their behavior is just too unpredictable, and doing things like adding and editing links is a pain (I notice URLs don’t even automatically become links...). Could we get some Markdown variant or something similar instead? That would be so much easier.
Adding separate comment so this’ll be seen—you should probably take a look at some of the comments over on SSC (another one). (Helps mitigate the selection bias that only people who were already willing to navigate the interface here will comment here!)
Also, the site is now somehow even slower than it was a few days ago.
Seriously, this new site is *way* less usable than the old one. If you scrapped all this and went back to the old design it would be a substantial improvement. Which is probably not what you should do, because the old design has some real problems too—no way to skip around the archives or skip to the end of things or look up posts based on date, for instance. But I’m not sure this version has those either?
What I want, I guess, is something that resembles a blog or message board (in terms of navigability and searchability) as far as things like main posts and user history pages go but resembles Reddit as far as comment threads on an individual post go. Whereas the old site resembled Reddit in both. This new site seems to have copied over the “resembles Reddit in both” while also adding lots of junk that’s slowed everything down and made everything more confusing.
The site is just too slow to load, IMO.
Also, echoing other users who said it’s too hard to find anything. I have no idea how I would, say, scroll through the chronological archives. (And there should *be* chronological archives. Think standard features available on a blog, or Reddit, or StackExchange—chronological archives, per user archives, search, etc.)
I don’t like the whole “load more” thing. Having discrete pages is definitely preferable, it doesn’t end up with some godawful amount of stuff displayed at once, and more easily allows one to skip through. (One problem with old LW was that if you wanted to, say, look through all of a user’s comments, all you could do is page through; there was no way to skip to the end. We need more stuff like that. Right now it seems we have even less.)
Edit: Also the interface is too hard to read. The old interface was colorful and readable; this one just all blends together. I like the new bars on the side, but where’s the old Reddit-style alternating colors? And why are the names, points, times, etc so small? (Not to mention the *buttions*! The reply button is *tiny*!)
Edit again: Also when you upvote or downvote something, the green that it turns is damn near unnoticeable (especially on those tiny buttons on comments rather than posts). Please use something more distinct. (Also, voting is too slow.)
Also: I really really do not like the rich text editor. Rich text editors are a pain in the ass; their behavior is just too unpredictable, and doing things like adding and editing links is a pain (I notice URLs don’t even automatically become links...). Could we get some Markdown variant or something similar instead? That would be so much easier.
Adding separate comment so this’ll be seen—you should probably take a look at some of the comments over on SSC (another one). (Helps mitigate the selection bias that only people who were already willing to navigate the interface here will comment here!)
Also, the site is now somehow even slower than it was a few days ago.
Seriously, this new site is *way* less usable than the old one. If you scrapped all this and went back to the old design it would be a substantial improvement. Which is probably not what you should do, because the old design has some real problems too—no way to skip around the archives or skip to the end of things or look up posts based on date, for instance. But I’m not sure this version has those either?
What I want, I guess, is something that resembles a blog or message board (in terms of navigability and searchability) as far as things like main posts and user history pages go but resembles Reddit as far as comment threads on an individual post go. Whereas the old site resembled Reddit in both. This new site seems to have copied over the “resembles Reddit in both” while also adding lots of junk that’s slowed everything down and made everything more confusing.
The performance should be a good bit better now, though more improvements are still coming.