This is really awesome and could change the fate of lesswrong. I really think this will bring people back (at least more than any other easy to implement change.) I personally expect to spend more time here now, at least.
One thing to take note of is that lesswrong, by default, sorts by /new. As the volume of posts increases, it may be necessary to change the default sort to /hot or /top/?t=week. Especially if you want it to be presentable to newcomers or even old timers coming back to the site, you want them to see the best links first.
Agreed that it makes sense to change the default. I think it also shouldn’t be too hard to have an ‘unread’ feed, which works off whether you’ve clicked through before or the post has attracted enough new comments since you last saw it.
This is really awesome and could change the fate of lesswrong. I really think this will bring people back (at least more than any other easy to implement change.) I personally expect to spend more time here now, at least.
One thing to take note of is that lesswrong, by default, sorts by /new. As the volume of posts increases, it may be necessary to change the default sort to /hot or /top/?t=week. Especially if you want it to be presentable to newcomers or even old timers coming back to the site, you want them to see the best links first.
Agreed that it makes sense to change the default. I think it also shouldn’t be too hard to have an ‘unread’ feed, which works off whether you’ve clicked through before or the post has attracted enough new comments since you last saw it.