Thank you for this! I saw this post just as I was working on a mammoth post on an economic topic with strong political implications. (Before posting it, I was going to nicely ask people in the next open thread if they allow me to make a top-level discussion post on this and if maybe I wouldn’t cause gigantic disturbances in the Force if I opened that can of worms.)
Signed up. Just a small suggestion: the fields in the registration form are too narrow. In particular I don’t know whether the form recorded the entirety of my password (I follow that piece of advice that says you should have really long passwords.) Would it be difficult to expand them a little?
Also, how long does it take until I receive the authentication email?
Edit: After browsing the format for a few more minutes, I’m not sure this is sufficiently forum-like for my preferences. There doesn’t seem to be a way to propose new or non-traditional discussion topics, the discussion seems to be US-centric, there doesn’t seem to be any format for threading, and the questions raised frame the discussion too much in terms of simple agreement/disagreement; there’s no apparent room for more nuanced views on the topics.
Also, how long does it take until I receive the authentication email?
Sorry for the confusion.
To avoid cold start, we wanted to sign up a sufficiently large group of people before opening the discussions. The site is scheduled to be opened on May 1 (you’ll receive an email notification).
There doesn’t seem to be a way to propose new or non-traditional discussion topics
the discussion seems to be US-centric
The site is not officially open yet. So far, we just had several test runs with randomly selected people.
Thank you for this! I saw this post just as I was working on a mammoth post on an economic topic with strong political implications. (Before posting it, I was going to nicely ask people in the next open thread if they allow me to make a top-level discussion post on this and if maybe I wouldn’t cause gigantic disturbances in the Force if I opened that can of worms.)
Signed up. Just a small suggestion: the fields in the registration form are too narrow. In particular I don’t know whether the form recorded the entirety of my password (I follow that piece of advice that says you should have really long passwords.) Would it be difficult to expand them a little?
Also, how long does it take until I receive the authentication email?
Edit: After browsing the format for a few more minutes, I’m not sure this is sufficiently forum-like for my preferences. There doesn’t seem to be a way to propose new or non-traditional discussion topics, the discussion seems to be US-centric, there doesn’t seem to be any format for threading, and the questions raised frame the discussion too much in terms of simple agreement/disagreement; there’s no apparent room for more nuanced views on the topics.
Sorry for the confusion.
To avoid cold start, we wanted to sign up a sufficiently large group of people before opening the discussions. The site is scheduled to be opened on May 1 (you’ll receive an email notification).
The site is not officially open yet. So far, we just had several test runs with randomly selected people.