Thank you for writing this excellent post, error. I know a lot of time went into this in the last months. The Study Hall does need to be more visible and posts like this, especially on main, help in showing more people that this exists.
Unfortunately it’s still tinychat and therefore just as buggy, but it now has a timer! And you can see tasks of other users! That means that breaks are cut off somewhat more abruptly, but they no longer run over. Overall the hall got more awesome!
Password stays “lw”, you don’t need to be a Complice user to access the site.
Malcolm has since created a new chatroom, which runs independently of tinychat! It’s still the same link as mentioned in my earlier comment. In addition, a chatroom for effective altruists (the EA Workspace) now exists as well.
The transition has been mostly smooth and everyone’s used to the new format by now, I think.
In fact, there is another try going on right now—the post was written before it happened. :)
Anyone who wants to take part can contact me, redacted, tkadlubo or error.
I am hopeful that this time we will be able set up something awesome. ^_^
Thank you for writing this excellent post, error. I know a lot of time went into this in the last months. The Study Hall does need to be more visible and posts like this, especially on main, help in showing more people that this exists.
And maybe, just maybe, this visibility and ensuing popularity will push forward the idea of changing tinychat to something else.
(replying here for visibility)
By the way, Malcolm has fulfilled some of the Study Hall users’ wishes by embedding the tinychat hall in his Complice website: http://lesswrong.com/lw/lqz/announcing_the_complice_less_wrong_study_hall/
Unfortunately it’s still tinychat and therefore just as buggy, but it now has a timer! And you can see tasks of other users! That means that breaks are cut off somewhat more abruptly, but they no longer run over. Overall the hall got more awesome! Password stays “lw”, you don’t need to be a Complice user to access the site.
The new room can be found here.
Malcolm has since created a new chatroom, which runs independently of tinychat! It’s still the same link as mentioned in my earlier comment. In addition, a chatroom for effective altruists (the EA Workspace) now exists as well.
The transition has been mostly smooth and everyone’s used to the new format by now, I think.
In fact, there is another try going on right now—the post was written before it happened. :) Anyone who wants to take part can contact me, redacted, tkadlubo or error.
I am hopeful that this time we will be able set up something awesome. ^_^