whether all the low-hanging fruit has been gathered
Still there is the issue that it is a format of publishing sorted by publishing date. It is not like a library where it is just as easy to find a book published 5 years ago than the one published yesterday because they are sorted by topic or the author’s name or something. Sequences and the wiki help this, still, a timeless view of the whole thing would be IMHO highly useful. A good post should not be “buried” just because it is 4 years old.
There’s a tremendous amount of material on LW. Do you have ideas about how to identify good posts and make them easier to find?
I can think of a solutions, but they might just converge on a few posts. Have a regular favorite posts thread. Alternatively, encourage people to look at high-karma older posts.
There’s a tremendous amount of material on LW. Do you have ideas about how to identify good posts and make them easier to find?
Actually, we could probably use off-the-shelf (literally) product recommendation software. The DB knows what posts people have upvoted and downvoted, and which posts they haven’t looked at yet (in order to get the “new since last visit” colored comment border).
Still there is the issue that it is a format of publishing sorted by publishing date. It is not like a library where it is just as easy to find a book published 5 years ago than the one published yesterday because they are sorted by topic or the author’s name or something. Sequences and the wiki help this, still, a timeless view of the whole thing would be IMHO highly useful. A good post should not be “buried” just because it is 4 years old.
There’s a tremendous amount of material on LW. Do you have ideas about how to identify good posts and make them easier to find?
I can think of a solutions, but they might just converge on a few posts. Have a regular favorite posts thread. Alternatively, encourage people to look at high-karma older posts.
Actually, we could probably use off-the-shelf (literally) product recommendation software. The DB knows what posts people have upvoted and downvoted, and which posts they haven’t looked at yet (in order to get the “new since last visit” colored comment border).