My guess is that it is massively overkill for an individual blog, and that both the level of complexity and the level of churn is not what you would want to deal with.
Have you considered either (a) blogging directly on LW or (b) modifying a simpler blogging engine to look like LW?
The AI Alignment forum is a separate server but runs on the same database, so about half of its infrastructure is shared (e.g. in terms of upkeep we only have to run migrations once for both the AIAF and the LW content, but the EA Forum team has to run them separately)
I present mine in a deliberately minimalist way, though you could choose to style them identically to on LW. The main downside to this approach is that people have to click through to LW to vote or comment.
There is remark42 (what I use currently) which is a plug and play comment system with upvotes and users and loads of auth. It doesn’t have karma but I believe it would be trivial to implement, it has the problem of not supporting CSS, but again, fairly trivial to implement (or, at least, simpler than modifying LW).
So probably having a semi-static blog + a remark42 mod as a comment system would replicate the effect (and that’s what I might go for)
Good to know, I suspect you’re right, since many people posting on LW have blogs, and I’m unlikely to be the first with this idea, I assume only 2 deployments in existence means it’s annoying to maintain.
Indeed, I took a closer look at the thing yesterday eve and it did seem a bit, ahem, convoluted (not necessarily a bad thing, but I assume it takes a bit of time to get an intuitive feel for it).
I believe the only other [EDIT: fully independent] deployment of the LW codebase today is the EA forum: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/
My guess is that it is massively overkill for an individual blog, and that both the level of complexity and the level of churn is not what you would want to deal with.
Have you considered either (a) blogging directly on LW or (b) modifying a simpler blogging engine to look like LW?
There’s also the alignment forum
The AI Alignment forum is a separate server but runs on the same database, so about half of its infrastructure is shared (e.g. in terms of upkeep we only have to run migrations once for both the AIAF and the LW content, but the EA Forum team has to run them separately)
Most blogs have comment sections that would be much improved by LW style karma. It’s also not something that can be easily gotten by a simpler engine.
It is possible to have the LW comment section while hosting your own blog; that’s what I do.
For example, the comments shown on https://www.jefftk.com/p/heel-and-toe-drumming are the comments on the LW crosspost (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fBf3MFi3iFEY4AN44).
I present mine in a deliberately minimalist way, though you could choose to style them identically to on LW. The main downside to this approach is that people have to click through to LW to vote or comment.
There is remark42 (what I use currently) which is a plug and play comment system with upvotes and users and loads of auth. It doesn’t have karma but I believe it would be trivial to implement, it has the problem of not supporting CSS, but again, fairly trivial to implement (or, at least, simpler than modifying LW).
So probably having a semi-static blog + a remark42 mod as a comment system would replicate the effect (and that’s what I might go for)
Good to know, I suspect you’re right, since many people posting on LW have blogs, and I’m unlikely to be the first with this idea, I assume only 2 deployments in existence means it’s annoying to maintain.
Indeed, I took a closer look at the thing yesterday eve and it did seem a bit, ahem, convoluted (not necessarily a bad thing, but I assume it takes a bit of time to get an intuitive feel for it).
Thanks for the feedback