So far, here's how my actual behavior has been since the change:

• I go to the site manifold.markets

• The market data on the default page is useless, my eyes don't even attempt to scan it

• I immediately click through to whatever page I actually wanted to go to, via search, profile, etc.

• I no longer find myself on the Explore page at all, RIP to anyone who wanted to show me something

Honestly the first page I'm truly interested in is usually notifications lol

@Eliza me too, BUT I also do not want it to be the default page, because that would mark them as read, and I do want to see the number of notifications before entering the page. If that makes any sense.

I wish I could choose which tab is my home page (on the app, which I use far more than the website these days) 🥲

This! (I also wish the app got some QoL updates the desktop site has, like sorting your portfolio by close date and investment sizes on the market positions/profit tab)

Edit: I am eternally thankful they recently finally made refreshing possible in the app, since a lot of things used to get stuck and the only way to deal with it was resetting the app via android (quitting and reopening or briefly switching to the multitask-view, both of which forced you back to the home page from where you were)

NO NO OMG NO!

I didn't vote because, honestly, it doesn't make that big of a difference for me as a regular user. I've simply changed the link in my quick link dashboard to mf/explore.

However, I think this might be quite a bad user experience for new users and app users. You've put a lot of effort into the feed, and in comparison, when I opened my account about 10 months ago, it has really improved, and I actually use and enjoy it. Now, the homescreen always displays the same questions, why would any user want to go there in the first place? All the filtering options are closed, so, to use the search function in any useful way, I have to click on extend first, which is one click, the same as before, or two if I'm not on the home screen. What's the benefit for new users, except to bombard them with the same questions over and over again? Isn't it in Manifold's interest to show them a variety of different questions in the first place?

When I was new, I wanted to see what types of questions are on Manifold and explore the universe of questions, rather than thinking, "Are there any questions about topic X?" and then typing it in only to be disappointed that there is nothing.

i vote worse mostly thinking about boosts

You like boosting your markets? Or just claiming boosts.

bc home is only a list, seems features like boosts, reposts are deemphasized

as a boost claimer I won’t see them

as a booster it’s a worse deal

making the decision over just the browse page doesnt consider all the other ux impacts

• no more search icon easily visible from any page, which leaves you lost when wanting to think 'i want to look something up' wherever you are in the app

• if youre going to have a page with a search bar at the top, KEEP it at the top on all pages, as in facebook, reddit, deviantart, youtube, etc (especially important if you dnt have a search icon always visible)

• breaking of convention of what 'home' means - it should be an algorithm/feed, not a list (dense list is not user friendly and overwhelming for most ppl)

• if a 'home' is not a feed, it should probably be a customizable dashboard /analytics page the user can use as a pilot seat to use your website from. think the partner page for a youtuber. showing metrics on how youre doing, profit/net worth, questions youve posted, people you follow, etc.

• home could also be a more highly curated daily rotating dashboard like kalshi that is purely moderated. and explore could be something different. but home should NOT be the browse/search page, feels weird

We used to have a search bar on every page.

wow deep lore!

I am a fan of a search bar in the sidebar. It just makes sense.

seems like continuing to improve the home feed with changes to what's there (including the algo) is a far better approach than transposing the two main icons and their entire function. doing that doesn't address the challenges that users - particularly frequent site users - have and raise with the home page, it just makes it one more click removed.

I think this is a far worse user experience to newer users than the home feed - arriving every time to this information-dense feed is really off-putting

home feed needs work for things like:

• The algorithm learning what content to provide and under what terms. New users should have an algo relevant to why they signed up so they're limited to things most likely to retain them.

• The options for "liked topics" during onboarding should be shortened as new users have a messy home feed from clicking too many topics when they haven't even touched the site yet.

• "Show less of this" needs to actually work/do that

• Ability to mute users whose markets someone doesn't want to see, without blocking them

• Reposting has been improved (thank you) so they're not stuck for a week or two. Repost length should be truncated in the instance of comments that are fairly long.

• Perhaps this is also a place to show some indication of movement of markets a person holds a position in (a request in the suggestion box on discord somewhere for this, maybe the home feed could provide this)

it feels really clunky and unintuitive (and not because I'm averse to change). I just went to visit some dashboards to check my positions on some markets and now those aren't featured because they're buried in the former home page. :(

I agree with the above commenter as well - what's the point in boosting markets at all in this configuration?

MC markets are so poorly represented in the "new home" page. the "old" version is nicer with cards as you can get a glimpse of options in the market.

I know I can just click to the old home page but it's just a comparitively bad flow, particularly for newer users to stumble across any new or interesting topics or markets.