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Remove vote counts from front page, or reduce their size

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I suggested some changes to the vote counts on the front page here, and was invited to post them on general meta.

Basically, I think the red/green meter is a great indicator for question quality, and I'm wondering if vote counts should be so prominently available. I would either remove them (possibly keep them as a title attribute on the meter), or reduce the font size to make them smaller than the question titles.

I think this would help draw your attention to what is actually important (the titles).

Current situation:

Mockup with small font:

(Note: maybe the negative count should be on the left and the positive on the right, so that it matches the meter)

Mockup without vote counts:

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Small font mockup is great, maybe add score meter style changes? (5 comments)
Regarding score (4 comments)
Quality is important (3 comments)
I don't think it looks good! (5 comments)
Small font mockup is great, maybe add score meter style changes?
ArrayBolt3‭ wrote about 2 years ago

As much as the meter is a fantastic idea, it looks like a graphical glitch when it's empty (0 upvotes, 0 downvotes). I just mostly bailed on SE and jumped over here tonight, and when I first saw an empty meter, my brain stalled for a good few seconds trying to figure out what I was looking at before I finally realized it was probably a score meter. I later discovered I was right.

My personal vote is for the small font variant, but with a restyled meter that looks right even when blank.

Quasímodo‭ wrote about 2 years ago

I'll disagree with this one. I like the big fonts: easy to read at a glance, and the space is well occupied.

I really like Codidact's question list style by the way. Very uniform space distribution, comfortable to parse, 6 questions per screen height, while Somewhere Else I get only 4. Cheers to those who designed it.

Keelan‭ wrote about 2 years ago

Quasímodo‭ odd, I see no difference in the number of questions per screen height. At any rate, a smaller font would get you more content on a screen, not less. It's about ratio, and to me it is weird that score should be larger than title, for instance.

Quasímodo‭ wrote about 2 years ago

Keelan, in the last paragraph I was comparing Codidact to Stack Exchange (here some like to codename it to Somewhere Else).

Keelan‭ wrote about 2 years ago

Quasímodo‭ I know, me too.