“Design Graveyard”, Gwern2010-10-01 (, , , , ; backlinks; similar)⁠:

Meta page describing Gwern.net website design experiments and post-mortem analyses.

Often the most interesting part of any design are the parts that are invisible—what was tried but did not work. Sometimes they were unnecessary, other times readers didn’t understand them because it was too idiosyncratic, and sometimes we just can’t have nice things.

Some post-mortems of things I tried on Gwern.net but abandoned (in chronological order).