Recent site changes, Mon 4th July

I like the new front page, I think it's better than jumping straight into the articles.

I like the new "reply" icon, and the fact that the comment count is now in the sidebar - good work!

I have exactly ONE complaint about the curent site design. Otherwise it's perfect.

PLEASE make the difference between what links you've visited and which ones you have not more visible at a glance.

I'm very positive about the change! I think the text on the front page is great, and I really like that this is the first thing people see at lesswrong.

It's not immediately obvious how to proceed to the list of articles (other than by reading the front page text) since "MAIN" appears in black text on the front page, implying that that's where you already are. I suggest making the top menu read "HOME | ARTICLES | DISCUSSION" where home=lesswrong.com/ and "main" is renamed to "artircles".

Also consider merging the right menu (wiki, sequences, about) with this menu to keep it simple.

The new front page is great, good work.

One nitpick: It seems to me that the Back to Less Wrong button on the wiki should take you to the main page, not the welcome page again.

The header doesn't look right on Wiki. Chrome 12, Opera 11, 1920x1200, 100% zoom. Is that intended?

Since the redesign, it seems old posts sometimes jump back to the top of /new.

Please do not use target="_blank" for the SIAI and FHI links in the header.

Thanks for these changes, now the site works far better on mobile devices!

thumbs up!

The titles of the categories "promoted articles" and "upcoming meetups" should link to the pages that list them all. (I'm not sure how to edit that part of markup on the wiki, should I just add something like around the headers?)

There are two additional improvements I'd really like:

• Count of up/down votes rather than of up minus down.

• Code pages so that the contents of the window are always resized to fit in the horizontal width of the browser window, without needing to side-scroll. This is more of an issue when editing a post than when reading.

I don't know whether it's got anything to do with the site changes, but LW has become less reliable about opening links. I'm getting those joke error messages relatively often, though I can usually get the link to work on a second try. I just got some sort of proxy error the first time I tried to open recent discussion posts.

In the upcoming meetups and in the upcoming events, they only show unusual events. All regular meetups are not displayed, which to a newcomer makes it look like there aren't any events in those areas. I would suggest a permanent pin on the areas that are confirmed to have regular meetups, with a link to the page that declares the regular time and place.

I like the new front page!

My first thought was "oh wow this is great!". And I still think that. :)

On the front page, is it supposed to say "regular regular meetups", or is this a redundancy typo?

Again, thanks for working on the site, and especially for keeping up with it even though the initial reaction was less than overwhelmingly positive. :)

It's not very clear how one gets to lesswrong.com/new/ from the new front page, or for that matter anywhere. I looked around a bit, but couldn't find a link anywhere. EDIT: Ah, there is a link on lesswrong.com/promoted/ , but you have to go there first to find it. That's not an optimal situation.

ETA: I second the comments about the new reply icon being better, and about appreciating the comment counts in the sidebar. (Though I was for a moment a bit confused as to what the "c" referred to, as I thought it was an implementation of the showing upvotes/downvotes separately thing.)

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The thumbs up/down icons are clear and nice, but the parent, edit, reply. permalink, and retract confuse me. They also appear to take up more vertical space. I'd much rather have the text back for those.

I am glad to see continuing work on the site.

Bug: the "continue this thread" link is not positioned correctly: Firefox 5 screenshot. (Behavior in Chrome 12 was pixel-for-pixel identical.)

Thanks for making the textbox version of comments disappear when they're posted.

Quick note, there's no mouse-over text for reply and link anymore, is that intended? In a positive note, I like the look of the site in general though, it's more friendly to newcomers.