Comments on: Moving Hiatus

By: Oliver

Oliver — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:12:34 +0000

Wow. Missed the changes. I’ll throw in my opinion about the layout.

I agree with the others that the sidebar layout isn’t visually great. I’m noticing, though, that I’m experiencing a lot less reading fatigue due to the increased type size (and thus words per line.) I disagree with the people who want more of the screen “used” if they want to use it for words. (Solution, people, is shrink your window. Less empty space. There.)

Also, there are some people like me who read this site primarily on a mobile phone web browser (on the train, etc.), so if you end up changing the columns, I’d really appreciate it if you’re aware about the order in which they’ll appear when linearized. It sucks having to scroll past blogroll/menu to get to the content.

I’m mostly concerned about ruthlessly getting information from this site, so perhaps you’re best off not having me as your web designer if your concern is making it friendly to newcomers.

By: Douglas Knight

Douglas Knight — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:44:43 +0000

Karl Hasselström, try the old site or the monthly archives.

By: Kaj Sotala

Kaj Sotala — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:03:40 +0000

I have to say that the sidebars to the right are outright horrible, consuming half of the available screenspace and making for a rather claustrophobic feel. (Which isn’t helped by the fact that maybe a quarter of the screen already goes entirely unused.)

The top of the screen looks better, though.

By: Karl Hasselström

Karl Hasselström — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:04:13 +0000

I’m slowly working my way through the OB archives, all the way from the beginning, by starting at the first post and following the “next” links. This stopped working today, since Eliezer’s posts are now automatically redirecting to lesswrong.com. I can read the post in question there, but there is no “next” link to follow to get to the next OB post.

I understand the motivation for the redirect, but I thought I should mention it, since it makes it harder to read the archive.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:15:13 +0000

Chris – yup, my mistake, the feed seems to be working fine again.

By: Stan

Stan — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:39:59 +0000

I hope I can post to this one, unlike the typepad. I’ll see in a second.

I would like the posts better if they took 2/3rds, rather than 1/2, of the page width. Also, looks like there’s no preview button. Does anyone else miss that?

By: matt

matt — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:56:12 +0000

Z.M.Davis: Comments past 50 are back (they were always there, we’d just unhelpfully left the pagination links off), and all of the old content is still available at http://robinhanson.typepad.com/.

By: Douglas Knight

Douglas Knight — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:55:07 +0000

Change that crazy robots.txt, if you want anyone visiting this page from google!
or a good searches.

Z. M. Davis,
I think that when the robots.txt is revised, the pages will reappear on archive.org, but I don’t expect it to have done a good job capturing extra comment pages.

By: Chris Masse

Chris Masse — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:12:44 +0000

Richard,

I am getting the full feed in Google Reader, don’t you?

overcomingbias.com/feed/

PS: I like the change, and another person I discussed with likes it too.

By: Z. M. Davis

Z. M. Davis — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:47:35 +0000

"it looks to me like the comments past 50 were lost in the transition" Yes. I ever so dearly hope that this only is temporary situation, and that the comments are not lost forever, for I remember some really valuable conversations that happened on later pages, that one would hope would remain in the public archives. Archive.org is blocked. I have at least managed to retrieve a particularly valuable old comment of mine via skillful application of google-fu.