Hey, if you’re new here, it’s perfectly natural that there are some website functions you are not familiar with. I am here for years, and there are still things I don’t know. Keep reading, you will gradually get more familiar with how this all works.
A few minutes ago I spent several minutes figuring out that a “5m” notation meant 5 minutes ago, not 5 months ago, even though the article had an “11y” notation for the 11 years from 2010.
Good catch! I never noticed this one. (If you move the mouse above the abbreviation, the full date and time will be displayed.)
The UI you imagine probably does not exist. What you can get is (a) the list of all articles you posted, in chronological order; and (b) the list of all comments you made, in chronological order, with links to context. Both of them are on the same page, when you click on your name.
For me, this is quite enough, because the number of my posts will most likely never exceed three digits, probably not even two (though I wish the meetup announcements were displayed separately from the actual articles), and given the huge number of comments I wrote during the years, I don’t believe I would ever want to see them all.
In solution terms, how could I learn about the system without bothering other people?
Maybe read articles with the Site Meta tag? Not all of them are related to what you want, but probably most of what you want is covered somewhere there.
Thanks for the lead to the “Site Meta” tag. I have that one open in another tab and will explore it next. However my general response to your reply is that part of the problem is that I would like to see different kinds of “tracking summaries” depending on what kinds of things I am trying to understand at a particular time.
You introduced a new example with your mention of “meetup announcements”. If you are trying to track your activity on LW in terms of such meetings, then you want to see things from that perspective.
What I have done in today’s experiment is to open all the “recent” notifications in tabs because it is not clear which ones are actually new… It would be helpful if the notifications pulldown list also showed the notification times (though the mouseover trick for date expansion also works for the relative dates on the floating summary that appears to the left of the notification when you hover over it). Overall I’m still having a difficult time grasping the status of this question.
Hey, if you’re new here, it’s perfectly natural that there are some website functions you are not familiar with. I am here for years, and there are still things I don’t know. Keep reading, you will gradually get more familiar with how this all works.
Good catch! I never noticed this one. (If you move the mouse above the abbreviation, the full date and time will be displayed.)
The UI you imagine probably does not exist. What you can get is (a) the list of all articles you posted, in chronological order; and (b) the list of all comments you made, in chronological order, with links to context. Both of them are on the same page, when you click on your name.
For me, this is quite enough, because the number of my posts will most likely never exceed three digits, probably not even two (though I wish the meetup announcements were displayed separately from the actual articles), and given the huge number of comments I wrote during the years, I don’t believe I would ever want to see them all.
Maybe read articles with the Site Meta tag? Not all of them are related to what you want, but probably most of what you want is covered somewhere there.
Thanks for the lead to the “Site Meta” tag. I have that one open in another tab and will explore it next. However my general response to your reply is that part of the problem is that I would like to see different kinds of “tracking summaries” depending on what kinds of things I am trying to understand at a particular time.
You introduced a new example with your mention of “meetup announcements”. If you are trying to track your activity on LW in terms of such meetings, then you want to see things from that perspective.
What I have done in today’s experiment is to open all the “recent” notifications in tabs because it is not clear which ones are actually new… It would be helpful if the notifications pulldown list also showed the notification times (though the mouseover trick for date expansion also works for the relative dates on the floating summary that appears to the left of the notification when you hover over it). Overall I’m still having a difficult time grasping the status of this question.