The two sites are based on quite different philosophies of web development, so it would be far from straightforward to do some of the things I’ve done within the existing LW 2.0 code. I’ve had fun creating GreaterWrong, and I don’t mind putting effort into it as long as LW 2.0 seems like a viable community. I don’t think it’s necessarily bad to have two sites that do the same thing, if some people prefer one and other people prefer the other. (I agree with Error’s comment.)
No, I don’t have any special access to the database. If you log in to GreaterWrong, your password is briefly stored in my server’s memory, only as needed to forward it to LW 2.0 and receive an authentication token back. In the future I’d like to eliminate even that, but it will require some additional complexity and changes on the LW 2.0 side.
The two sites are based on quite different philosophies of web development, so it would be far from straightforward to do some of the things I’ve done within the existing LW 2.0 code. I’ve had fun creating GreaterWrong, and I don’t mind putting effort into it as long as LW 2.0 seems like a viable community. I don’t think it’s necessarily bad to have two sites that do the same thing, if some people prefer one and other people prefer the other. (I agree with Error’s comment.)
No, I don’t have any special access to the database. If you log in to GreaterWrong, your password is briefly stored in my server’s memory, only as needed to forward it to LW 2.0 and receive an authentication token back. In the future I’d like to eliminate even that, but it will require some additional complexity and changes on the LW 2.0 side.