I don’t think the existence of an alternate interface has any bearing on whether the main interface is good, or should be promoted out of beta. Practically speaking almost nobody will use the alternate interface. Me using it does not solve any problems except my personal ones, which are of no import.
While I agree there are quite a few people using GW, which I think is good and makes GW worthwhile, LesserWrong.com currently has 30 times as much traffic as GW. So I do think that the main site interface should be the key determining factor.
I do however think that the meta point, which is the existence of an API that allows users to create third-party clients and the proof-of-concept of GW makes a large difference of whether we should move to the new codebase, since it does make a much deeper level of customization possible.
I’m not. And I have given up on many comments because commenting on Android has been broken. It appears to be almost working right now, except the text is flowing outside the comment box. :S
Which users you talk to is going to be such a biased sample though. I would expect lurkers both to be more likely to use lesserwrong and to be a majority of overall users.
I don’t have strong intuitions about whether this applies to commenting though—it’s plausible it doesn’t.
I don’t think the existence of an alternate interface has any bearing on whether the main interface is good, or should be promoted out of beta. Practically speaking almost nobody will use the alternate interface. Me using it does not solve any problems except my personal ones, which are of no import.
As far as I can work out—most users I talk to are using gw.
While I agree there are quite a few people using GW, which I think is good and makes GW worthwhile, LesserWrong.com currently has 30 times as much traffic as GW. So I do think that the main site interface should be the key determining factor.
I do however think that the meta point, which is the existence of an API that allows users to create third-party clients and the proof-of-concept of GW makes a large difference of whether we should move to the new codebase, since it does make a much deeper level of customization possible.
I’m not. And I have given up on many comments because commenting on Android has been broken. It appears to be almost working right now, except the text is flowing outside the comment box. :S
Pushing a fix for that tonight! Sorry about that!
Which users you talk to is going to be such a biased sample though. I would expect lurkers both to be more likely to use lesserwrong and to be a majority of overall users.
I don’t have strong intuitions about whether this applies to commenting though—it’s plausible it doesn’t.