Over the life of this blog, we’ve been tweaking its appearance and functionality to make it easier to find information and to make it more user-friendly. In addition to the standard tags and categories, we’ve added lists of popular posts, recent comments, a way to share links to posts via various social media sites, etc. Recently, we’ve improved the way author pages are organized.
In the spirit of user-centered design, we’d like to know which features people find useful, confusing, unnecessary, missing, etc. If you have any suggestions for improving the usability of the site (sorry, improvements to the quality of posts are out of scope, but topic suggestions are welcome!), please let us know!
I don’t see any of those features on the pages associated with posts–which are the only pages I ever see, since I use an RSS reader and click through to posts in order to comment on them. If there are features that readers find useful on the front page, you might consider including them on the post page too. That’s what I do on The Noisy Channel. Perhaps I should poll my own readers to see if they’re happy about that design decision!
I’d like to see:
Headings for the entries the “recent comments” are commenting on.
A list of the most commented on entries.
And I agree with Daniel’s suggestion.