I do want to also take a moment and say that we made a change and didn't communicate it well beforehand. That's my fault and I'm sorry. Second, whether you love it or hate it, we're very appreciative of the feedback and thoughtful responses to the ideas in Monday's thread. In the future, big changes like this will not be launched without communicating to the community first, floating ideas for feedback, showing mockups where appropriate, and getting more feedback before releasing to the site.This made me choke up a bit :,) Thank you so much for listening and for saying this!
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':'I've been thinking.In short, add a "[ ] Show titles as first sentence of posts on the front page" option. Here's what that looks like.
What if:
- titles stay, but
- there is a toggle setting that users can change
- if it's set to on, titles are shown as titles (much) like now
- if it's set to off, titles are shown as the first sentence of the post
Would that work?
posted by Too-Ticky at 12:34 PM on January 9 [+] [!]
.posttitle.front:after { content: ":\0000a0"; }I'm not sure if this is meaningfully better than just setting the titles to normal font and size, but I like it. What do y'all think?
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"Cool."and the only vaguely negative comment saying the linked site would have been better as an ordered list, we're gonna agree to disagree on the said quality.
"Some good things there.."
"I ♥ Street of Crocodiles"
"I loved the 10th one."
"Creature Comforts.. always a great time."
"I totally dug,... Fetiche on Honeymoon"
The titles being an easier way to scan and click into threads is something I've heard lots of feedback about from non-members, who ask what the deal is with the front page just being paragraph after paragraph of text with tiny link indicators of more information. Seriously, I've gotten the chance to interact with the site with hundreds of people over the years that have never seen it, and every time I show them the front page of MetaFilter, the first response is usually "What the hell is this? How do I even use this?" But I understand that outside non-members of the site have very different needs than existing longtime members.posted by Brandon Blatcher at 3:40 AM on January 11 [1 favorite]
"I wish cake had velocity to it. That way I could travel at the speed of cake."Coming up with good titles was already challenging enough, much more so with so little room to work in. With the reduction in standard headline size, I'd love it if the character limit were raised to tweet length, or at least 100 characters.
"They are almost certain not to understand what the plane is -- perhaps a spirit or a large bird."
"Monsters Inc. meets The Nightmare Before Christmas inside a retro Japanese video game"
"So you go home at night, like me, smarter than you were when you woke up in the morning."
"It is of such stiff stuff that the upper lip of the British phonetician should be fashioned, giving short shrift to chauvinism."
"With television you just sit, watch, listen. The thinking is done for you."
"I felt like I'd been catapulted from one end of the universe to the other"
Journalism is just a gun. Aim it right, and you can blow a kneecap off the world.
Tie game. Bottom of the 9th. Bases loaded. Two outs. Three balls. Two strikes. And the pitch...
"First freedom and then Glory - when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption - barbarism at last"
"Used to be that the idea was 'once every two years voters elected their representatives.' And now instead it's 'every ten years the representatives choose their constituents.'"
Due to all the reviews, my wife and I gave Season 1 a shot and found it pretty boring... how long do you have to put up for it before it gets good?Without the titles, these AskMe Qs are indecipherable.
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It's a great machine, but the blade is stuck to the pan. [more inside]
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.postitle {font-weight:bold;}.posttitle a {font-weight:bold!important;}posted by SpookyFish at 4:56 PM on January 14
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:01 AM on January 9 [3 favorites]