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| Aug 19, 2018 at 9:45 | comment | added | forest distrusts StackExchange | @JonEricson For some things, you just know that you'll hate it forever. I still miss Google Images' original layout that didn't even need JavaScript, where there were fewer images per page and the images were smaller, with actual text underneath. Despite however long it's been out, I still hate it, and I knew I would from the beginning. For many people, this could very well happen with Stack Exchange. | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 17:54 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | If the left nav started collapsed, with guidance to users to click on it to get to "questions", "users", and "tags", it would probably go over better on the 173 sites that don't have Teams and for anybody using a smaller viewport. I visited a site where I don't have an account on my tablet recently and actual Q&A was less than a quarter of the visible content -- some of that was because of CoC notices and the tour, but a lot of it was from left nav and right nav both having fixed widths, so Q&A only gets the leftovers. That feels wrong and I've tried to express it before on Meta. | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 8:54 | comment | added | Mad Scientist | @JonEricson The problem is that this can easily delay feedback that would have been useful earlier. The best stage to still change major stuff is when the first draft of the design is ready, but not fully implemented yet. I convinced myself that my initial negative reaction to the first Skeptics design was mostly because it was so different, but that was a mistake and a much stronger push against it could have avoided a lot of issues later. | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 7:10 | comment | added | Jon Ericson StaffMod | To clarify: I'm not suggesting waiting for things to be fixed, but waiting to see if your reaction is based on an underlying problem or just change aversion. I'm thinking about, for instance, my visceral reaction to the last time Google changed the icons in Docs. My dislike didn't survive the day. On the other hand, the changes in Google Meet from Hangouts have not gotten better with time. | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 6:47 | history | answered | Mad Scientist | CC BY-SA 4.0 |