Seems like the rough consensus is that the text is harder for your brain to parse for some reason, although the full bleed images are nice (once cropping issue is fixed).
Will keep tweaking, perhaps there’s a way to keep the old style while retaining full bleed images.
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:
What I love about Twitter’s UI is how the photo is as wide as the text. Purple lines show it.
The synergy of symmetry!
Giant gif of skull laser eyes was nuking my scroll performance when it hit the top of my feed. Never felt that slow with gifs before
Just a little bit more air between notes will do the trick imo. Helps with readability. Otherwise perfect ✅
The cropping makes it worse than the smaller thumbnail 😁
And yes, the text now looks worse - not totally sure why I think that. Worth noting that I’m a small-screener (iPhone mini) and would probably be the type of person who would want more efficient text usage. Something about it just isn’t quite right. Glad you are testing and asking though! Thanks!
New timeline view reads fine for me. 🤙
Is it just in my head or is the space on the left of text slightly smaller than the space on the right? Or is that just because it’s right - aligned that my brain is thinking that?
