5 years doesn’t strike me as insane. It seems that most online platforms require a makeover about once every 5 years, so yeah, if this goes well then launching LessWrong 3.0 in 2022-2023 seems quite reasonable. Though some platforms seem to last 10 years without makeover before they seriously decline, so maybe we can put it off until 2027-2028. I would be surprised if this website would be successful for more than 10 years without significant rework (the internet changes quickly, and there is a good chance we will all be browsing in VR by then, or social networks will have wholly consumed the whole internet, or some other change of the scale of the onset of social networks happens).
5 years doesn’t strike me as insane. It seems that most online platforms require a makeover about once every 5 years, so yeah, if this goes well then launching LessWrong 3.0 in 2022-2023 seems quite reasonable. Though some platforms seem to last 10 years without makeover before they seriously decline, so maybe we can put it off until 2027-2028. I would be surprised if this website would be successful for more than 10 years without significant rework (the internet changes quickly, and there is a good chance we will all be browsing in VR by then, or social networks will have wholly consumed the whole internet, or some other change of the scale of the onset of social networks happens).