The description on the landing page of lesswrong.io is:
This is a community for people who are interested in Rationality, Cognitive Science, Technology, Philosophy, and related subjects. Our goal is to share and discuss insightful ideas that help us to improve our reasoning and decision-making skills.
But that sounds like it could be a description of lesswrong.com. Is lesswrong.io intended to be a replacement for lesswrong.com? If so, is there a plan for deprecating lesswrong.com and migrating the user base over to lesswrong.io? If not, is seems to me that having two different forums with the same purpose could actually splinter rather than revitalize the community.
Are there any suggestions for what sorts of discussions the io site is for vs what sorts of discussions the .com site is for?
If so, is there a plan for deprecating lesswrong.com and migrating the user base over to lesswrong.io?
Nope. There is a plan underway to migrate lesswrong.com to a new codebase, but it’ll be similar to Reddit / Hacker News (i.e. much the same) instead of Twitter / Mastodon.
Mastodon is supposed to be a Twitter replacement. As such, it has a 500-character limit on posts, so it will be difficult to hold complicated discussions there.
Also, it’s the Twitter-is-dying-let’s-all-go-over-there flavour of the month thing.
To avoid splintering the community, my suggestion would be that if someone wants to make a <500 character post, they could just make in on lesswrong.com, perhaps on open thread. After all, we don’t have a minimum post length.
The description on the landing page of lesswrong.io is:
But that sounds like it could be a description of lesswrong.com. Is lesswrong.io intended to be a replacement for lesswrong.com? If so, is there a plan for deprecating lesswrong.com and migrating the user base over to lesswrong.io? If not, is seems to me that having two different forums with the same purpose could actually splinter rather than revitalize the community.
Are there any suggestions for what sorts of discussions the io site is for vs what sorts of discussions the .com site is for?
Nope. There is a plan underway to migrate lesswrong.com to a new codebase, but it’ll be similar to Reddit / Hacker News (i.e. much the same) instead of Twitter / Mastodon.
Mastodon is supposed to be a Twitter replacement. As such, it has a 500-character limit on posts, so it will be difficult to hold complicated discussions there.
Also, it’s the Twitter-is-dying-let’s-all-go-over-there flavour of the month thing.
Ah—got it.
To avoid splintering the community, my suggestion would be that if someone wants to make a <500 character post, they could just make in on lesswrong.com, perhaps on open thread. After all, we don’t have a minimum post length.