It is currently way too hard to ignore highlights for people who want to ignore them. I think that dubleclicking the highlight should send you to the whole post. Once the highlight is open, both the title and the whole highlight should a link to the whole post.
The problem we are worried about with that is that titles vary in length—sometimes they stretch all the way across the screen, so a fairly common scenario would be for people clicking down the frontpage to see highlights, and accidentally click on a post with a long title and end up on the post itself.
Main issue with the suggestion as worded is that for “open/close” tabs on the internet, it’s common practice for clicking an “open” tab a second time to close it. So we’d expect people to frequently click a second time, only to suddenly find themselves on a new page they didn’t mean to go to.
It is currently way too hard to ignore highlights for people who want to ignore them. I think that dubleclicking the highlight should send you to the whole post. Once the highlight is open, both the title and the whole highlight should a link to the whole post.
Just uploaded a new version to lessestwrong.com, interestd in whether this fixes the concerns for you.
I now think it would be a lot better if the space to the right of the actual title also opened the highlight.
The problem we are worried about with that is that titles vary in length—sometimes they stretch all the way across the screen, so a fairly common scenario would be for people clicking down the frontpage to see highlights, and accidentally click on a post with a long title and end up on the post itself.
I like this better than before, and I am not sure whether I like it better than my suggestion.
Main issue with the suggestion as worded is that for “open/close” tabs on the internet, it’s common practice for clicking an “open” tab a second time to close it. So we’d expect people to frequently click a second time, only to suddenly find themselves on a new page they didn’t mean to go to.
Aw, thats right. Ok, it is better than my suggestion.