Thank you totallybogus, the greaterwrong site is exactly what I was looking for. It might be a good idea to have this site linked somewhere from profile pages so users can see how to reach these archives.
Habryka, the load more option does not provide any practical way of getting to stuff older than a few dozen posts, and does not have any way to get a link to a given range of posts to allow you to return without again trying to load the entire history a few posts at a time through the load more option. It would be a very nice addition to either provide a way to search by date range, or a link to the greaterwrong site that does provide easy access to older posts.
Personally, I think the greaterwrong site (or rather, something functionally equivalent to it) should be the main or only way LW2 is accessed via the web. The technical solutions found in Lesser Wrong (including Meteor and Vulcan) may be appropriate in an actual PWA (Progressive Web App, basically a bunch of JS and ‘style/formatting templates’ that get installed on your device/computer as a proper, well-defined application and then interact with the remote site via a web-based API of some sort) but they have no advantages to speak of in a traditional website.
We are pretty close to being a proper Progressive Web App, and I definitely see this as the long-term goal of our current design.
There is no reason to reload the whole LW application on every visit, but with Application Storage being phased out as a web-technology, and Service Workers not yet being fully available on Safari and Edge, there isn’t yet a great way to give everyone a good experience with a progressive web app. But I expect this will change within the coming year, with safari and iOS support being in the late stages of the beta. So there is a reason behind the design choices we are making.
Thank you totallybogus, the greaterwrong site is exactly what I was looking for. It might be a good idea to have this site linked somewhere from profile pages so users can see how to reach these archives.
Habryka, the load more option does not provide any practical way of getting to stuff older than a few dozen posts, and does not have any way to get a link to a given range of posts to allow you to return without again trying to load the entire history a few posts at a time through the load more option. It would be a very nice addition to either provide a way to search by date range, or a link to the greaterwrong site that does provide easy access to older posts.
Personally, I think the greaterwrong site (or rather, something functionally equivalent to it) should be the main or only way LW2 is accessed via the web. The technical solutions found in Lesser Wrong (including Meteor and Vulcan) may be appropriate in an actual PWA (Progressive Web App, basically a bunch of JS and ‘style/formatting templates’ that get installed on your device/computer as a proper, well-defined application and then interact with the remote site via a web-based API of some sort) but they have no advantages to speak of in a traditional website.
We are pretty close to being a proper Progressive Web App, and I definitely see this as the long-term goal of our current design.
There is no reason to reload the whole LW application on every visit, but with Application Storage being phased out as a web-technology, and Service Workers not yet being fully available on Safari and Edge, there isn’t yet a great way to give everyone a good experience with a progressive web app. But I expect this will change within the coming year, with safari and iOS support being in the late stages of the beta. So there is a reason behind the design choices we are making.