Discussion
Isn’t the new design closer to the optimal line length now ?
Looks amazing ✨
Seems like it. I don’t know how much that study is to be believed. But also human beings sometimes have a hard time adapting to change. The new design works fine for me. Different strokes for different folks, I guess. 🤷🏻♂️
I suspect it has something to do with the margin making it easier to find the start of each post (just look for the next pfp). Right now it all looks mushed together when you’re scrolling. Going to rework it.
This new design looks good for me as well. I have no issues reading the notes 🙏
I have a theory as to why it’s so difficult for some people to parse.
In Damus old style and Twitter, the line that separates posts is very thin. It was acceptable being this because users used the profile icons that stood out (no text underneath them) to visually determine when a new post was starting.
In new Damus style, since everything bleeds more together, I think the line that separates posts needs to be a bit thicker. Facebook is closer to new Damus style and does this. Might even have a little more padding around post separating line as well.
Examples below on how Twitter does it and how Facebook does it with the thicker line to separate posts:
