The feedback design kind of grew on me and I must say you're kind of late to the party ;) I don't think you'll get a response on your feedback comment, whenever it get's to the design things get kind of difficult - see the blog, every article with a project from here get's the "hackaday.io design is shit" treatment.

Good to see that you're sharing your scripts, I guess they won't support the old feed much longer. There was a time when you could select what you've want to see, but that got removed, too. So I also have a script ;) 

$('[data-group="assign-user-project"]').hide();
$('[data-group="follow-list-list"]').hide();
$('[data-group="follow-event-event"]').hide();
$('[data-group="follow-contest"]').hide();

These will hide followers of stuff you follow and everyone who gets added to the hackchat (for example).
Since not everyone can be happy, I really like the idea of using JS to hack it the way you like.

I started here because I think the interface is infinitely better than that other DIY site with user-generated content.  You know the one.

My guess is most of the people will want to avoid those notification too.

I'll try them, thanks a lot!

I'm new here, so never saw the old feed - I like the density your adblock filters create.  On the other hand, some people may like the verbose format.  It's easier to make a script remove content than add it, and it is a hacker site, so this solution seems like the right approach.  If there's something you don't like, just fix it ... this applies to anything in the universe you may encounter :-)

BTW, you missed one:

hackaday.io##.cover-padding

Thanks!
"hackaday.io##.content-right-other" added.

The old feed was also compact, but not grouped with a couple of users or event for one entry. Each notification used to appear in the list one by one, in the order of the events, with the newest on top. Also, there was a checkbox of 10-20 various categories in the user's profile configuration, where you were able to disable categories you don't want in the myFeed, e.g. "I don't want to see notifications from the Stack page".

This is cool. And as Ted pointed out, this is a site for hackers, so it doesn't not make sense to kinda motivate their so-doing. OTOH, some hackers are good at C, some at analog circuitry, some at whatever F'd up "language" runs the internet these days. You can probably guess I'm not one of the latter. So, thank you for making this available to the likes of us!

OTOH, I'm not sure about Ted's response "If you don't like the way it looks, fix it"... That's great for *viewing* feeds, but it doesn't apply when you're creating content for others. And, ironically, this site-for-hackers really locks-down the layout of one's own content, even more-so than Myspace script-kiddies. Mixed-blessing; I think the majority of us would actually improve our pages.

I'm confused why people consistently complain about notifications from the stack. There's only something like a few posts there a week. Other things (like users added to the hacker channel) certainly add *way* more clutter.

And, dagnab, what the heck is up with your screen?! Is it high-res, wide-screen, and vertical?

LOL, yes, you are correct about the screen. The captures were made from a 4K monitor (3840 pixels × 2160) in portrait mode, with scaling 1:1 (100%). Programmers love to keep their monitors in portrait mode, because they can see more code lines on the same page without scrolling. Unfortunately I'm not a programmer either, so my monitor usually stays in landscape mode, with 150% zoom. For those captures, I wanted to have the whole first page of the thread captured, but if I would have done it in landscape 150%, than it would have been about 10-15 pages of captures instead of "just" 4. So I zoomed out from 150 to 100% and rotated the screen only from the driver (and also physically rotate the mouse, or else mouse pointing becomes really disturbing - just try it once, for the fun :o), then took 4 very long screenshots in order to point out how much clutter is there in a single page.
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By the way, your question made me realize why the new feed is so slow compared with the old one. The new feed page is indeed a VERY long one, and all those excerpts with comments and pictures are, in fact, request to many, many hackaday.io pages. So, when one clicks on the feed and the grey box starts to scroll sideways, then in the background the scripts are making request for tenths of pages. After all those requested excerpts from various pages are fulfilled, then the gray box prepares all the clutter and displays it as the new feed.

As you pointed out, that's a darn long page! A 1/10 of it would have been more than enough for one screen, and also 10 times faster then it is now. Thanks!

I still like landscape, personally... When I program it's nice to have multiple windows/files open side-by-side, and even better when referencing datasheets, etc. Tall/skinny is nice, though. 80-columns FTW! Oddly, I almost never do that with webpages, though, 90% of the time it's fullscreen. Huh. I've tried portrait a few times, and know about mousing left-up, er is it down...? Even more fun on a sideways laptop touchpad ;)

Hadn't occurred to me that the feed is calculated at our end, that could change things as far as rescripting prospects. I preferred how it listed things chronologically so it was easy to see where I last caught-up when I saw two or three of the same updates in a row that I'd seen before. (Now that I think about it, that might actually be easy-ish with the addition of: ?beatle... try it.)