(This is the sort of place to complain that 5 lectures a week is too many, or to propose that we have a weekly discussion event in the Walled Garden, or so on.)
So one thing I’m worried about is having a hard time navigating once we’re a few episodes in. Perhaps you could link in the main post to the comment for each episode?
Lesswrong doesn’t have a “group”-like (user subthread) functionality, and I mostly think Lesswrong is currently not an optimal place to do “subscribe to a sequence of posts” content (...ironically?), since it doesn’t seem presently rigged for this.
(I thought they discontinued sequences functionality? They may have actually limited access to it to a karma score or something, and I’m holding this assumption weakly.)
These are counterbalanced for me by the accessibility/reach of LW (for audience and commenters) and the expected quality of comments, though. And it’s always possible to just provide in-text links to tie together a sequence. I think I’ve convinced myself not to push to change it; it’s a fine choice.
I’m… really curious to see how well “discussion-driven something-or-other” goes. I was a little disappointed with how little engagement the “Questions” section sometimes got, and I usually think of “Link-out w/ discussion” as a slightly-similar datatype.
I think if I wanted I could make this a Sequence of posts. I’m also quite curious to see how it goes.
For what it’s worth, I like having all of the discussion on one page (in part because coming back to this page shows you discussion on the other lectures), but maybe it will get unwieldy. [In the Old Days we had to break up the intro threads whenever they hit 500 comments or so, and quite possibly this post will end up with so many comments that we’ll have to break it up also. Probably the team is fine with me signing them up to do surgery on this post if necessary. :P]
BTW, everyone can make a sequence (the button is available on the /library page, deliberately a bit out-of-the-way for new users. Users with 1000 karma should see the menu-item right next to the “new post” button in the User menu)
This post seems to be the meta-Lecture Club, not Episode 1, so I’m a tad confused about where to object-comment on Epi 1 (high-level? subthread on Episode 1 summary? Both seem a little suboptimal.)
This probably resolves itself as “just do a highest-level comment” after Epi 1, but I wanted to express the confusion.
Meta discussion about how to do this:
(This is the sort of place to complain that 5 lectures a week is too many, or to propose that we have a weekly discussion event in the Walled Garden, or so on.)
I’ll be in the Walled Garden to talk about lectures 1-5 from 4pm to 6pm (Pacific time) this Sunday; here’s the invite link.
I just realized that LW lets you embed YouTube videos in comments! I assume this was built in to the editor, rather than a feature we added?
Required some integration from both sides. But yeah, the new editor made it much easier.
So one thing I’m worried about is having a hard time navigating once we’re a few episodes in. Perhaps you could link in the main post to the comment for each episode?
Great idea, will do.
Lesswrong doesn’t have a “group”-like (user subthread) functionality, and I mostly think Lesswrong is currently not an optimal place to do “subscribe to a sequence of posts” content (...ironically?), since it doesn’t seem presently rigged for this.
(I thought they discontinued sequences functionality? They may have actually limited access to it to a karma score or something, and I’m holding this assumption weakly.)
These are counterbalanced for me by the accessibility/reach of LW (for audience and commenters) and the expected quality of comments, though. And it’s always possible to just provide in-text links to tie together a sequence. I think I’ve convinced myself not to push to change it; it’s a fine choice.
I’m… really curious to see how well “discussion-driven something-or-other” goes. I was a little disappointed with how little engagement the “Questions” section sometimes got, and I usually think of “Link-out w/ discussion” as a slightly-similar datatype.
I think if I wanted I could make this a Sequence of posts. I’m also quite curious to see how it goes.
For what it’s worth, I like having all of the discussion on one page (in part because coming back to this page shows you discussion on the other lectures), but maybe it will get unwieldy. [In the Old Days we had to break up the intro threads whenever they hit 500 comments or so, and quite possibly this post will end up with so many comments that we’ll have to break it up also. Probably the team is fine with me signing them up to do surgery on this post if necessary. :P]
BTW, everyone can make a sequence (the button is available on the /library page, deliberately a bit out-of-the-way for new users. Users with 1000 karma should see the menu-item right next to the “new post” button in the User menu)
Note that people can subscribe to posts-of-a-given-tag. (I agree you should also be able to subscribe to a sequence, but, this is a hack for now)
This post seems to be the meta-Lecture Club, not Episode 1, so I’m a tad confused about where to object-comment on Epi 1 (high-level? subthread on Episode 1 summary? Both seem a little suboptimal.)
This probably resolves itself as “just do a highest-level comment” after Epi 1, but I wanted to express the confusion.
Sorry about that; object-level commentary on Episode 1 should happen underneath the Episode 1 comment.