The home page now has a From the Archives section, which displays three posts randomly selected from the entire history of LessWrong. Currently, a post can appear in this section if:
(1) you’ve never read it while logged in (including on old-LessWrong),
Huh, that’s quite weird. It’s definitely not doing that for me, though that might be a result of my account being fully populated with events we’ve tracked on LW2.
We’ve imported all the old post-view events from LW 1, but there is a good chance those are missing some coverage, in particular for very old accounts.
At the very least we should make sure to not show you something that you’ve already voted on.
This seems bugged; I’m frequently recommended posts that I’ve already read, and in some cases even voted on (I was just recommended https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6hfGNLf4Hg5DXqJCF/a-fable-of-science-and-politics , which I know I’ve read multiple times, and which showed an upvote right when I opened the page).
Huh, that’s quite weird. It’s definitely not doing that for me, though that might be a result of my account being fully populated with events we’ve tracked on LW2.
We’ve imported all the old post-view events from LW 1, but there is a good chance those are missing some coverage, in particular for very old accounts.
At the very least we should make sure to not show you something that you’ve already voted on.