Sorry for shouting… I’m an old man. But Renegade and Telegard had this feature called “newscan” (or for the more pedantic “new scan”) where you could scan for all new posts or replies to threads you were engaged in since the last time you visited and quickly preview them and respond if desired.
It was one of the ways that a a keystroke-driven text-based menu system was superior to a website, because I’ve never seen a successful implementation of this on the web. You can have a similar feature, but you don’t have the speed, ease, and quick prompting… I don’t know how to describe it.
Like one of those^. I was hoping someone would have demoed this on YouTube, but this is as close as I got.
Anyway… on the default menu ‘M’ for new messages, yes to scan. Or ‘S’ to scan for new messages when you get to the messages menu.
It’s this super simple feature that put the response right in front of you, previewed it, and was like “reply?” And you’re like “Y” and it’s that easy. On the web you get a notification, click, preview, go to a new page screen, scroll to comment, and lose all hope and then don’t respond.
It would be a lot of javascript to do something like it on the web.
Maybe LessWrong could do like The WELL/picoscan and make an version we could SSH in to.
(Oh and I will pledge to respond to this thread for like two weeks, with an option to renew when I’m done).
It’s hard to describe if you’ve never done it. Like you can see them highlighted on a thread, but it’s just not as easy to respond or find really. You still have to go and look at the thread. You can’t just login and say “show me everything new one post and a time and let me skip or reply without having to click.”
DID NO ONE HERE USE RENEGADE OR TELEGARD?!?
Sorry for shouting… I’m an old man. But Renegade and Telegard had this feature called “newscan” (or for the more pedantic “new scan”) where you could scan for all new posts or replies to threads you were engaged in since the last time you visited and quickly preview them and respond if desired.
It was one of the ways that a a keystroke-driven text-based menu system was superior to a website, because I’ve never seen a successful implementation of this on the web. You can have a similar feature, but you don’t have the speed, ease, and quick prompting… I don’t know how to describe it.
Like one of those^. I was hoping someone would have demoed this on YouTube, but this is as close as I got.
Anyway… on the default menu ‘M’ for new messages, yes to scan. Or ‘S’ to scan for new messages when you get to the messages menu.
It’s this super simple feature that put the response right in front of you, previewed it, and was like “reply?” And you’re like “Y” and it’s that easy. On the web you get a notification, click, preview, go to a new page screen, scroll to comment, and lose all hope and then don’t respond.
It would be a lot of javascript to do something like it on the web.
Maybe LessWrong could do like The WELL/picoscan and make an version we could SSH in to.
(Oh and I will pledge to respond to this thread for like two weeks, with an option to renew when I’m done).
Haha nope, never used it. Doesn’t LessWrong currently do this by highlighting new posts and comments with a green sidebar?
Regardless, my feeling is that ease of discovering of new posts/replies isn’t the issue.
It may not be.
It’s hard to describe if you’ve never done it. Like you can see them highlighted on a thread, but it’s just not as easy to respond or find really. You still have to go and look at the thread. You can’t just login and say “show me everything new one post and a time and let me skip or reply without having to click.”