It looks like the About page has been in approximately its current form since September 2012, including the placement of the FAQ link. For users who have discovered LW since September 2012, how have you interacted with the FAQ?
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If you spent time reading it, did you find it useful?
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Should we increase its prominence by linking to it from the home page too?
I figure an exhaustive FAQ isn’t that bad, since it’s indexed by question… you don’t have to read all the questions, just the ones you’re interested in.
No, it is not bad at all. But it does what it says on the tin, answers questions. When starting with LW from zero there are no questions yet or not many, but more like exploration.
It’s linked to from the About page. Scroll to the bottom and you can see it has over 40,000 views: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/FAQ But it’s not among the top 10 most viewed pages on the LW wiki: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Special:Statistics So it seems as though the FAQ is not super discoverable.
It looks like the About page has been in approximately its current form since September 2012, including the placement of the FAQ link. For users who have discovered LW since September 2012, how have you interacted with the FAQ?
[pollid:981]
If you spent time reading it, did you find it useful?
[pollid:982]
Should we increase its prominence by linking to it from the home page too?
[pollid:983]
I went directly to the sequences, not sure why. Probably the sheer size of the list of contents was kind of intimidating.
“the sheer size of the list of contents”—hm? What are you referring to?
The FAQ
I figure an exhaustive FAQ isn’t that bad, since it’s indexed by question… you don’t have to read all the questions, just the ones you’re interested in.
No, it is not bad at all. But it does what it says on the tin, answers questions. When starting with LW from zero there are no questions yet or not many, but more like exploration.