I want to see a backlink feature, so people can find replies to a post that aren’t in the form of a comment. Compared to the old LW, people now write more posts than comments, and some long replies that would have been comments in the old LW now appear as posts, but these are hard to find from the post that they’re replying to. Please consider implementing this for external backlinks too if that seems worthwhile.
(Also, is this still the best place to submit feature requests?)
Thanks, another request: can you convert old outgoing IAFF links (in this post for example) to point to AF instead? Relatedly, can you also make it so that if viewing a post on LW, outgoing AF links go to LW instead (similar to how GW links get dynamically converted to LW links and vice versa)?
We don’t really control the LW Wiki, so not sure how feasible this is. It would probably require a completely separate codepath, and I don’t know what the subscription infrastructure of the wiki has. I will look into it, but can’t promise anything as of yet.
Thanks! Can you also make the backlinks sortable by karma and date, and/or display the karma and date of each backlink? Because some of the posts (example) have a lot of backlinks and it’s hard to know which ones might be worth following. Oh also, the backlinks from posts currently do not show the authors of those posts.
I want to see a backlink feature, so people can find replies to a post that aren’t in the form of a comment. Compared to the old LW, people now write more posts than comments, and some long replies that would have been comments in the old LW now appear as posts, but these are hard to find from the post that they’re replying to. Please consider implementing this for external backlinks too if that seems worthwhile.
(Also, is this still the best place to submit feature requests?)
It’s as good a place as any to submit feature requests, I think.
Agree on backlinks, that’s on our agenda.
Thanks, another request: can you convert old outgoing IAFF links (in this post for example) to point to AF instead? Relatedly, can you also make it so that if viewing a post on LW, outgoing AF links go to LW instead (similar to how GW links get dynamically converted to LW links and vice versa)?
Nod. Added to the issue tracker.
When you implement backlinks, please do it for the LW Wiki as well, in both directions? See also this.
We don’t really control the LW Wiki, so not sure how feasible this is. It would probably require a completely separate codepath, and I don’t know what the subscription infrastructure of the wiki has. I will look into it, but can’t promise anything as of yet.
I assumed the way we would do this is “finally get around to porting the wiki over to the new site”
Added to GreaterWrong.
Thanks! Can you also make the backlinks sortable by karma and date, and/or display the karma and date of each backlink? Because some of the posts (example) have a lot of backlinks and it’s hard to know which ones might be worth following. Oh also, the backlinks from posts currently do not show the authors of those posts.