I'm a brand new user of the website, and I thought I'd share some of my experience with this website as a new user. First thing I noticed is that when I open some stuff in a new tab, it looks pretty weird and unformatted. I tend to open most links in a new tab automatically, so it was weird to see that pages like this, or this showed up as completely unformatted, which initially confused me for a bit until I realized I had to only left-click on them without opening them in a new tab for them to work properly. Another thing is that purely from a user perspective, having the 'follow' and 'ignore' buttons so close to eachother on someone's profile could be problematic, and I could see how I (or anyone else) could accidentally click on the ignore button by accident when meaning to click the follow button. I also noticed that when I wanted to 'preview' the posts on my home page, that I could only click on one at a time, and would then have to exit this popup in order to click the next preview button, or do anything else. It would be nice to be able to quickly preview post after post without having to exit out of the popup and only then click on the next preview button. Maybe this could be done by having the preview show up on the right side of the page where there's empty space? Or maybe move the popup a bit to the left so that I'm just able to doubleclick on the next preview icon, and by doubleclicking I both close the current popup and open the next one. These are just my experiences with the site as a brand new user, hopefully they are somewhat helpful. EDIT: In editing my post, I noticed that when I click the 'update' button, it doesn't take me back to any page, and leaves me on that same page. I'm not sure if that's an error on my part somehow, but it seems to me that pressing back on my browser is the only way to go back to the page I was initially on. Maybe there could be a button that allows the user to go back to the previous page? I just realized I have a lot of criticisms, but please realize these are only minor.
I appreciate the feedback. There is always room for improvement, and it definitely helps to get a new and fresh perspective on the site. Right away, I think it's a good idea that the link to return to the post after editing is obvious, and I agree, the 'ignore' and 'follow' buttons could be moved apart.