Nobody asked for my opinion, but I'm giving it anyway. After all, I'm here every day and I notice the little things.
First up is the transition to a sparse homepage that provides the choice to read or write. According to abrahamKim, this feature is designed to give us the choice to write without being distracted if we choose. I get that and I'm fine with it, although it may be a little jarring for people brand new to the site.
The refreshed main feed page looks similar to the previous one with a few minor and major changes. The top menu bar is condensed and grouped in its own subtle frame. The avatars of people who showed up each day have been moved from the side bar to the top of each day's set of posts. This is fine except we lost the visibility of the streaks. It appears now the only way I can see someone's streak is to go into each person's profile page.
The biggest omission that fundamentally changes the site for me is the inability to see the author of each post. The author's avatar that used to be at the left of each post is now gone. As I scroll through the feed, I can see the avatars of the people who commented on the post, but I cannot see who actually wrote the post until I click on the post. For example, I thought there was some new user called "RAGE QUIT," and it turns out it was just brianball, which I still didn't get after reading the post and only realized it by going into his profile.
The author of a post is a critical element, and I'm not sure the rationale for its removal in the feed. Perhaps in my shock and disapproval, I was a bit harsh when I leveled the charge at Sir Abe that this was a "Baz-like" move.
Anyway, this is my opinion. I could be in the minority, and it wouldn't be the first time.
lmao no i love your opinion and am in agreement with you that author-post relationship should be super explicit. I'm already changing that back. And that baz joke I was even thinking myself... and was also expecting it from you. lol
It's easy for a programmer to make a few changes while they're tinkering. It's fun, it's relaxing, and it's perfectly contextual. Minor nudges, experiments, etc.
But, to the person who's not in the code, it can be jarring.
I might cast a vote for numbered changes. All work. All the time. The updates are only a link away.
Brian if i'm not mistaken I think that actually basecamp doesn't have versioned pages within an app. What they do have is they have multiple versions of Basecamp -- each an entirely different sourcecode repo -- and they allow you to use different Basecamps which is contrary to most SASS. Most SASS simply puts the new version in place of the old one. There is no Google v1 and then v2 and then v3. there is only Google.
I remember us discussing this https://adagia.org/post/231 so let me know if we're not on the same page.
On another note though. Besides the dark/bright theme what other concrete things would you like toggling? Lol concrete things help me most.
abrahamKim
brianball
But, to the person who's not in the code, it can be jarring.
I might cast a vote for numbered changes. All work. All the time. The updates are only a link away.
adagia.org/v1/post/1020
adagia.org/v2/post/1020
If you think about it -- the 1020 part is just text -- so you can put any engineering or formatting behind it
light/dark theme is one example of something you can toggle. why not the whole set of features?
I remember us discussing this https://adagia.org/post/231 so let me know if we're not on the same page.
On another note though. Besides the dark/bright theme what other concrete things would you like toggling? Lol concrete things help me most.