Do you agree that the literal monetary value of the site being down for a day is (likely) greater than that? Never mind the symbolism, there’s just like two thousand people who visit the Frontpage in a day, around half of whom might pay something in the range of $1-$10 for the site not to be randomly down on them for a day?
Interesting. My intuition was “24 hours isn’t a long time, and it’s just the front page, people can surely come back later”. But while that’s a small inconvenience, $1 worth of inconvenience sounds plausible. So yeah, fair point! $1-10k actually seems like a fair value for this, thanks
EDIT: Reading the other comments on that point, it seems reasonable that LessWrong power users are best able to work around the outage, and the people who’d be most inconvenienced. And I expect most of those people to not know about GW (what is GreaterWrong anyway?), but this to correlate with caring less about the existence of LW. So I guess I’d lower the estimate a bit
https://greaterwrong.com is an alternate interface to LessWrong, implemented by… I think Clone of Saturn does most of the coding and Said Achmiz does most of the design work?
Same content, different design, slightly different set of features. (E.g. no karma change notification, no voting on tags, but comment navigation is improved.) I tend to use it over LW because it’s faster.
You can generally just replace lesswrong with greaterwrong in a URL.
Interesting. My intuition was “24 hours isn’t a long time, and it’s just the front page, people can surely come back later”. But while that’s a small inconvenience, $1 worth of inconvenience sounds plausible. So yeah, fair point! $1-10k actually seems like a fair value for this, thanks
EDIT: Reading the other comments on that point, it seems reasonable that LessWrong power users are best able to work around the outage, and the people who’d be most inconvenienced. And I expect most of those people to not know about GW (what is GreaterWrong anyway?), but this to correlate with caring less about the existence of LW. So I guess I’d lower the estimate a bit
https://greaterwrong.com is an alternate interface to LessWrong, implemented by… I think Clone of Saturn does most of the coding and Said Achmiz does most of the design work?
Same content, different design, slightly different set of features. (E.g. no karma change notification, no voting on tags, but comment navigation is improved.) I tend to use it over LW because it’s faster.
You can generally just replace lesswrong with greaterwrong in a URL.
Oh, thanks! That sounds really useful when LW is being slow on mobile