I suggest a “I already replied” indicator for messages in my inbox. Also, flags I can set on certain comments/messages to indicate that I should reply to them with high priority. (These could basically work the same way as in a typical email client.) This could be integrated with the bookmark feature that I suggested earlier.
Also, is it just me or does development happen rather slowly on LW? I’ve done some web development myself and it seems like on a codebase that I’m familiar with, it would take a few weeks at most to implement some of the feature suggestions that have been sitting here for many months.
I added an “archive” button to the PM system a few months ago, which I was hoping would serve some of the function you were requesting. Adding some kind of tags or flags to it also seems like a reasonable improvement, though not that many users use the LessWrong PM system, so I am kind of hesitant to optimize that part of the site super much.
Re development speed: I think it’s mostly that we’ve been prioritizing other stuff. I.e. I’ve been revamping a bunch of the map infrastructure and meetup infrastructure recently, which I think is something you are not super interested in, but I think is pretty important for other reasons. Most of our feature prioritization is a result of some long-term visions, and user interviews we make. The currently two most requested features we are working on is adding Google Docs-like sharing functionality to posts, which is a relatively major project, as well as a revamp of the notification system that also supports more granular email notifications, neither of which are mentioned in this thread, but are definitely the most requested features via all the other channels we have for people making feature requests.
(And actually, checking the rest of this thread, there isn’t a single feature request on it that I feel like I want to prioritize, that isn’t already implemented, besides the two comments you made today. Is there anything else in this thread that you think we should prioritize?)
though not that many users use the LessWrong PM system, so I am kind of hesitant to optimize that part of the site super much.
I’m actually thinking more about comments than PMs. There are comments (either addressed to me or just general comments) that I want to make sure to eventually read/digest/respond to, and right now there’s no good way to keep track of that.
Is there anything else in this thread that you think we should prioritize?
Not sure what you mean by “this thread”, but I still want to see the backlinks feature, and this.
Ah, I see. Then yes, I agree with you that better Inbox management for notifications in general seems quite valuable. As I mentioned, we have an upcoming rework of the notification system in general, so after that is done, I will look into doing that.
Also agree with backlinks. We are about to roll out hover link-previews, which is a related feature, so I think we can do that soon.
Re the last linked feature: We also have some drafts and plans for a react-system, that I am pretty excited about implementing, but held off on for the last three months because we decided to focus on some stuff that would conflict with that, but I expect us to get around to that soon.
Thanks! While I have you here, any reason why voting is disabled in the inbox and recent comments on GW?
Also, I submitted a feature request on the GW issue tracker to display AF karma (the numbers next to the Omega signs on LW). This is a problem especially on mobile (Android Firefox) because the “LW” button that takes me to the LW version of a post/comment doesn’t show there so I can’t even click on that to see the AF karma.
Thanks! While I have you here, any reason why voting is disabled in the inbox and recent comments on GW?
Voting from recent comments was enabled for a while, but Said objected to it because he thought people might vote on comments in a knee-jerk way without understanding the context. For the inbox, though, it’s more of an oversight (I just never missed having the buttons there).
Also, I submitted a feature request on the GW issue tracker to display AF karma (the numbers next to the Omega signs on LW).
Sure, that should be doable. Originally I thought it would require two independent sets of voting buttons, which seemed too weird and confusing, but it looks like that’s not actually the case.
Voting from recent comments was enabled for a while, but Said objected to it because he thought people might vote on comments in a knee-jerk way without understanding the context.
In that case it would help if the Permalink button (which I have to first press in order to vote) goes to a page that shows the context of the comment. Currently it just shows the single comment, so you’re not really making people see the context before they vote anyway. And I think that would be helpful even aside from this concern, because often I want to check out the context of a comment, and right now I have to press the up-arrow/parent button a bunch of times to do so.
Voting from recent comments was enabled for a while, but Said objected to it because he thought people might vote on comments in a knee-jerk way without understanding the context.
I suggest a “I already replied” indicator for messages in my inbox. Also, flags I can set on certain comments/messages to indicate that I should reply to them with high priority. (These could basically work the same way as in a typical email client.) This could be integrated with the bookmark feature that I suggested earlier.
Also, is it just me or does development happen rather slowly on LW? I’ve done some web development myself and it seems like on a codebase that I’m familiar with, it would take a few weeks at most to implement some of the feature suggestions that have been sitting here for many months.
I added an “archive” button to the PM system a few months ago, which I was hoping would serve some of the function you were requesting. Adding some kind of tags or flags to it also seems like a reasonable improvement, though not that many users use the LessWrong PM system, so I am kind of hesitant to optimize that part of the site super much.
Re development speed: I think it’s mostly that we’ve been prioritizing other stuff. I.e. I’ve been revamping a bunch of the map infrastructure and meetup infrastructure recently, which I think is something you are not super interested in, but I think is pretty important for other reasons. Most of our feature prioritization is a result of some long-term visions, and user interviews we make. The currently two most requested features we are working on is adding Google Docs-like sharing functionality to posts, which is a relatively major project, as well as a revamp of the notification system that also supports more granular email notifications, neither of which are mentioned in this thread, but are definitely the most requested features via all the other channels we have for people making feature requests.
(And actually, checking the rest of this thread, there isn’t a single feature request on it that I feel like I want to prioritize, that isn’t already implemented, besides the two comments you made today. Is there anything else in this thread that you think we should prioritize?)
I’m actually thinking more about comments than PMs. There are comments (either addressed to me or just general comments) that I want to make sure to eventually read/digest/respond to, and right now there’s no good way to keep track of that.
Not sure what you mean by “this thread”, but I still want to see the backlinks feature, and this.
Ah, I see. Then yes, I agree with you that better Inbox management for notifications in general seems quite valuable. As I mentioned, we have an upcoming rework of the notification system in general, so after that is done, I will look into doing that.
Also agree with backlinks. We are about to roll out hover link-previews, which is a related feature, so I think we can do that soon.
Re the last linked feature: We also have some drafts and plans for a react-system, that I am pretty excited about implementing, but held off on for the last three months because we decided to focus on some stuff that would conflict with that, but I expect us to get around to that soon.
Added to GreaterWrong.
Thanks! While I have you here, any reason why voting is disabled in the inbox and recent comments on GW?
Also, I submitted a feature request on the GW issue tracker to display AF karma (the numbers next to the Omega signs on LW). This is a problem especially on mobile (Android Firefox) because the “LW” button that takes me to the LW version of a post/comment doesn’t show there so I can’t even click on that to see the AF karma.
Voting from recent comments was enabled for a while, but Said objected to it because he thought people might vote on comments in a knee-jerk way without understanding the context. For the inbox, though, it’s more of an oversight (I just never missed having the buttons there).
Sure, that should be doable. Originally I thought it would require two independent sets of voting buttons, which seemed too weird and confusing, but it looks like that’s not actually the case.
In that case it would help if the Permalink button (which I have to first press in order to vote) goes to a page that shows the context of the comment. Currently it just shows the single comment, so you’re not really making people see the context before they vote anyway. And I think that would be helpful even aside from this concern, because often I want to check out the context of a comment, and right now I have to press the up-arrow/parent button a bunch of times to do so.
(For the record, I still think this!)