Once upon a time, clicking somewhere at the top left of the LW home page (maybe on “LESSWRONG”, maybe on the hamburger to its left, probably the latter) produced a drop-down list of sections one of which was “Meta” and contained things like regular updates on Less Wrong development.
I cannot now find anything similar. I wondered whether maybe there was a “meta” tag that was being used instead, but it doesn’t look that way.
I wanted to have a look at information about recent site updates (because at some point something has gone terribly wrong with the editing functionality, at least for me at the moment on this computer, and I wondered whether there was a recent change that might explain it, and whether other people had reported the same thing). I am currently failing to find any way to do that.
Although I found the “site meta” tag, it didn’t really help me answer my question. There don’t seem to have been any site-update posts for ages other than the one about the tag system, which isn’t obviously relevant to editor issues. I searched for “LessWrong Docs” but the most recent thing I see about it is a post from last November saying that it hadn’t been released yet.
Yeah, we currently are not creating announcements for anything that we publish for beta-users only, because I think it would cause too many distractions and be irrelevant to the vast majority of users. Do feel free to ping us on Intercom (or here) if you ever notice anything weird as a beta-user, and I am happy to give you context or explain things or try to fix things.
Thanks. As mentioned above, I had forgotten that I’d specifically opted in to anything and assumed it was a site-wide beta. My apologies for whingeing about it in public, therefore.
I managed to answer part of my own question: there is indeed a “site meta” tag, which I had failed to find by following the “tags” link accessible via the hamburger menu at top left but which is found by searching for “meta”. I failed to find it via the “tags” link not because it wasn’t there but because it looked (to me) like a heading rather than an actual tag. Duh.
Presumably the absence of “meta” from the hamburger menu is because we are no longer supposed to find things via menus but instead by using the tag system. It is not obvious to me that this is an improvement.
Once upon a time, clicking somewhere at the top left of the LW home page (maybe on “LESSWRONG”, maybe on the hamburger to its left, probably the latter) produced a drop-down list of sections one of which was “Meta” and contained things like regular updates on Less Wrong development.
I cannot now find anything similar. I wondered whether maybe there was a “meta” tag that was being used instead, but it doesn’t look that way.
I wanted to have a look at information about recent site updates (because at some point something has gone terribly wrong with the editing functionality, at least for me at the moment on this computer, and I wondered whether there was a recent change that might explain it, and whether other people had reported the same thing). I am currently failing to find any way to do that.
What am I missing?
Although I found the “site meta” tag, it didn’t really help me answer my question. There don’t seem to have been any site-update posts for ages other than the one about the tag system, which isn’t obviously relevant to editor issues. I searched for “LessWrong Docs” but the most recent thing I see about it is a post from last November saying that it hadn’t been released yet.
Yeah, we currently are not creating announcements for anything that we publish for beta-users only, because I think it would cause too many distractions and be irrelevant to the vast majority of users. Do feel free to ping us on Intercom (or here) if you ever notice anything weird as a beta-user, and I am happy to give you context or explain things or try to fix things.
Thanks. As mentioned above, I had forgotten that I’d specifically opted in to anything and assumed it was a site-wide beta. My apologies for whingeing about it in public, therefore.
I managed to answer part of my own question: there is indeed a “site meta” tag, which I had failed to find by following the “tags” link accessible via the hamburger menu at top left but which is found by searching for “meta”. I failed to find it via the “tags” link not because it wasn’t there but because it looked (to me) like a heading rather than an actual tag. Duh.
Presumably the absence of “meta” from the hamburger menu is because we are no longer supposed to find things via menus but instead by using the tag system. It is not obvious to me that this is an improvement.
GreaterWrong has a meta view: https://www.greaterwrong.com/index?view=meta
I’m not sure how it’s populated or if a similar page exists on LW.
Yeah, these days we use the “site meta” tag.