Hey everyone! It appears I’m six years late to the party, but better late than never.
I’ve been building a website for the last few months which is very close to the ideas presented in this article. I’ve summarized some features of it, and added an entry to the wiki page:
Debate Map: Web platform for collaborative mapping of beliefs, arguments, and evidence.
Pros:
Collaborative creation, editing, and evaluation of debate/argument maps.
Open source. (under the MIT license)
Developed using modern web technologies. (react-js, redux, firebase)
Built-in probability and validity rating, and calculation of argument strength from these ratings.
Tree-based structure which can extend very deep without loss of clarity or usability.
Integrated term/definition system. Terms can be defined once, then used anywhere, with hover-based definition display.
Cons:
Has a learning curve for casual users, as content must conform to the argument<-premise structure at each level.
Performance is currently less than ideal on mobile devices.
I’m the sole developer at the moment, but I’m very invested in the project, and plan to spend thousands of hours on it over the years to make it the best it can be. I’m very interested in your feedback! I’ve been a silent reader of this site for a couple years, and it’ll be neat to finally get involved a bit.
Yeah, I use Chrome myself, so compatibility in Firefox breaks sometimes. (and I forget to check that it’s working there more often) I’ll look into it relatively soon.
As for the submenus not closing when you re-press their sidebar buttons, I just haven’t coded that yet. Should be a one line change, so it will probably be added by tomorrow. Thanks for checking it out.
EDIT: Okay, I tried opening it in Firefox, and could not reproduce the “black boxes” issue in your screenshot. What version of Firefox are you using? Also, I’ve now updated the submenu/sidebar buttons to close the menus when re-pressed. (and updated their appearance a bit)
Hey everyone! It appears I’m six years late to the party, but better late than never.
I’ve been building a website for the last few months which is very close to the ideas presented in this article. I’ve summarized some features of it, and added an entry to the wiki page:
Debate Map: Web platform for collaborative mapping of beliefs, arguments, and evidence.
Pros:
Collaborative creation, editing, and evaluation of debate/argument maps.
Open source. (under the MIT license)
Developed using modern web technologies. (react-js, redux, firebase)
Built-in probability and validity rating, and calculation of argument strength from these ratings.
Tree-based structure which can extend very deep without loss of clarity or usability.
Integrated term/definition system. Terms can be defined once, then used anywhere, with hover-based definition display.
Cons:
Has a learning curve for casual users, as content must conform to the argument<-premise structure at each level.
Performance is currently less than ideal on mobile devices.
I’m the sole developer at the moment, but I’m very invested in the project, and plan to spend thousands of hours on it over the years to make it the best it can be. I’m very interested in your feedback! I’ve been a silent reader of this site for a couple years, and it’ll be neat to finally get involved a bit.
Playing around with the debates on firefox causes graphical glitches http://i.imgur.com/QsoLeqn.jpg
Chrome seems to work, but these submenus don’t close after you click on them http://i.imgur.com/sbNBhZ1.png
Yeah, I use Chrome myself, so compatibility in Firefox breaks sometimes. (and I forget to check that it’s working there more often) I’ll look into it relatively soon.
As for the submenus not closing when you re-press their sidebar buttons, I just haven’t coded that yet. Should be a one line change, so it will probably be added by tomorrow. Thanks for checking it out.
EDIT: Okay, I tried opening it in Firefox, and could not reproduce the “black boxes” issue in your screenshot. What version of Firefox are you using? Also, I’ve now updated the submenu/sidebar buttons to close the menus when re-pressed. (and updated their appearance a bit)
It appears I can’t replicate it either. I may have updated Firefox since last week or something? 54.0.1 (32-bit) is my current version.