Update on LW 2.0: user interviews scheduled for this week, work on the design underway, as well as some extra features. The broad plan is something like the following: user interviews / alpha testing to find the breaking UX bugs and get the design squared away, a closed beta to find more bugs and make sure the experience with multiple people doing stuff on the site is good / how we expect it to be, and then an open beta to give the broader community a chance to see it and find things for us to fix before it goes live at lesswrong.com. A core part of this process is making sure that there’s consensus that it’s actually worth switching.
Yep! We have a working import system tested on a partial DB dump Trike gave us. The main wrinkles are around editing old posts—we’re moving to a different format from the raw html with an editor (so that comments and posts will have the same editor), and so the first time you edit an old post you might have to do a bunch of conversion work / it might not be possible to get the exact same look.
(For example, I don’t think we’re going to have font options anymore, and so that’ll prevent accidental weird fonts from copy/pasting from another source, but will mean any post that wanted to rely on different fonts will be out of luck.)
And if the answer happens to be “maybe later”, will it be possible to freeze the old LW meanwhile (i.e. people will not be able to post articles, comment, and vote)?
Update on LW 2.0: user interviews scheduled for this week, work on the design underway, as well as some extra features. The broad plan is something like the following: user interviews / alpha testing to find the breaking UX bugs and get the design squared away, a closed beta to find more bugs and make sure the experience with multiple people doing stuff on the site is good / how we expect it to be, and then an open beta to give the broader community a chance to see it and find things for us to fix before it goes live at lesswrong.com. A core part of this process is making sure that there’s consensus that it’s actually worth switching.
\Will it be possible to import all existing LW content?
Yep! We have a working import system tested on a partial DB dump Trike gave us. The main wrinkles are around editing old posts—we’re moving to a different format from the raw html with an editor (so that comments and posts will have the same editor), and so the first time you edit an old post you might have to do a bunch of conversion work / it might not be possible to get the exact same look.
(For example, I don’t think we’re going to have font options anymore, and so that’ll prevent accidental weird fonts from copy/pasting from another source, but will mean any post that wanted to rely on different fonts will be out of luck.)
Can you check it with a machine running NoScript ?
A lot more folks will be using it soon...
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And if the answer happens to be “maybe later”, will it be possible to freeze the old LW meanwhile (i.e. people will not be able to post articles, comment, and vote)?
Yes.