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It is prettier. But it does not mean it provides a better UX.

For example, in http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html there is a whole list of essays. No pagination (and especially not with a manual link), working with Ctrl+F.

The redesign forgets about that. It treats as if only the most recent blog posts mattered, which is not the case. It is not a news outlet, and there are quite a few evergreen posts.

Anyway, wishing you all the best with the redesign. :)

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I second this. On occasion I'll be inclined to share one of his essays with someone else, so having multiple pages to scroll through is suboptimal because I won't remember exactly what the essay title is. Being able to see them in one place makes it much much easier to figure out which one.

Form over function strikes again!

Great point, I've added a search with a page that lists all the articles for the best of both worlds.

Form over function strikes again!

This is one of the reasons that pushes me towards create a document first with HTML, then style it with CSS. If needs be – interactivity —, add a bit of JS. Space can look good when you're designing on a 27" screen, but on the iPad or the MBA, it is wasteful. Butterick's Practical Typography[0] and Beautiful Racket[1] are currently my standard for websites and a delight to browse.

[0]: https://practicaltypography.com/

[1]: https://beautifulracket.com/

This is an interesting discussion I would love to listen more to.

Pagination (this site) vs a long list of all the titles (Paul's actual site). Which is better user experience?

OP seems to suggest pagination for sites where new content is high value & old content is low value. Long list of titles where all content is equal.

IMO, pagination only makes sense when you want to save bandwidth and computation. Like, if each item has images, that need to be fetched. If there is pagination, I'd prefer the option to choose the number of items in the list.

If it is text-only, I see no reason to do any pagination (except a cargo cult-like habit). In this case, no option is needed.

Use <img loading="lazy" />.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/im...

I not sure there is much to say.

Regular users will be interested in the most recent articles, seems fair to put them first.

Curious users will be interested to found an article that they may like. No need to say that a description of an article (and associated metadata) is far better than just the title.

And there is a search accessible in 1-click. Seems to me as a fair trade-off for every use case.

Once you found the article you want to read, you can also just hit the "Reader mode" button in your browser, boom automatic dark mode and readable font size.

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