Some random things that bug me slightly on greaterwrong (although I don’t use it that often)
I still find the strong-upvote mechanic on GreaterWrong fairly confusing (I think it still requires doubleclicking, which is not an action I normally associated with the web).
Aesthetic preference – the various “glowing” buttons (in particular voting, possibly other places) feel sort of weird and distracting to me. With the new Less theme, I think they’re the last major thing that feels off about the styling to me.
I still find the strong-upvote mechanic on GreaterWrong fairly confusing (I think it still requires doubleclicking, which is not an action I normally associated with the web).
It does require double-clicking, yes. It’s interesting to hear that you don’t associate that with the web… I do wonder how many people have similar intuitions. (Part of the reason I did it that was was that it was straightforward to implement (especially with fairly robust browser support). The other part was that I found it intuitive to do it like that.)
Do you—and this is somewhat of a long shot question that I don’t expect you to have an answer for off the top of your hand, but—do you by chance have some examples handy of websites (popular or otherwise) that implement interactions beyond single-click? I’d be curious to know how prevalent are various approaches. (I mean, to be clear, interactions with buttons and button-like elements; gestures are, of course, a whole other story.)
Don’t personally have any examples offhand that use anything other than click and hover (with hover on its way out due to mobile), which is presumably why it felt unintuitive. :P
FWIW, the mobile-LW implementation of strong upvoting is “click once for upvote, click again for strong upvote, click again to remove all upvotes”.
I think maybe part of the issue on greaterwrong right now is that it looks like it takes a second before updating the client, so the feedback isn’t as clear. (that + having a tooltip would probably also clarify everything that needed clarifying)
I quite like both the classic theme (which I saw awhile ago, but just had the affordance to comment on now), as well as the new Less theme.
Also thanks again to the greaterwrong folk for adding the alignment filter. We had some AlignmentForum users who preferred greaterwrong.
Some random things that bug me slightly on greaterwrong (although I don’t use it that often)
I still find the strong-upvote mechanic on GreaterWrong fairly confusing (I think it still requires doubleclicking, which is not an action I normally associated with the web).
Aesthetic preference – the various “glowing” buttons (in particular voting, possibly other places) feel sort of weird and distracting to me. With the new Less theme, I think they’re the last major thing that feels off about the styling to me.
It does require double-clicking, yes. It’s interesting to hear that you don’t associate that with the web… I do wonder how many people have similar intuitions. (Part of the reason I did it that was was that it was straightforward to implement (especially with fairly robust browser support). The other part was that I found it intuitive to do it like that.)
Do you—and this is somewhat of a long shot question that I don’t expect you to have an answer for off the top of your hand, but—do you by chance have some examples handy of websites (popular or otherwise) that implement interactions beyond single-click? I’d be curious to know how prevalent are various approaches. (I mean, to be clear, interactions with buttons and button-like elements; gestures are, of course, a whole other story.)
Don’t personally have any examples offhand that use anything other than click and hover (with hover on its way out due to mobile), which is presumably why it felt unintuitive. :P
FWIW, the mobile-LW implementation of strong upvoting is “click once for upvote, click again for strong upvote, click again to remove all upvotes”.
I think maybe part of the issue on greaterwrong right now is that it looks like it takes a second before updating the client, so the feedback isn’t as clear. (that + having a tooltip would probably also clarify everything that needed clarifying)
Thanks!