Suggestion: Inline comments for LessWrong posts, ala Google Docs
It’s been commented on before that much intellectual work in the EA/Rat community languishes behind private Google Docs. I think one reason is just that the inline-commenting mechanism on a GDoc is so much better than excerpting the comment below. Has the Lightcone team considered this/what is the status?
(I vaguely recall them working on a live-collab feature, not sure if commenting would have been part of this)
If you go into a draft of a post and highlite text you can see a comment button. When I just tested it, clicking the button did nothing but at least the button to create comments is there.
Okay, now I’ve used the live-collab/commenting feature on a LessWrong draft. It’s pretty good! If you haven’t seen it yet, I’d recommend writing a new LW post and requesting feedback; Justis Millis’s feedback was super fast, highly detailed, and all-around incredibly valuable!
Can I turn on inline comments for a published LessWrong post too? Even after “publishing” it’d super useful to get the comments inline. In my view, a great post should be a timeless, living, breathing, collaborative document, rather than a bunch of words dumped out once and never revisited.
(There’s value in the latter in terms for eg news posts; but LW’s focus is less on that.)
Suggestion: Inline comments for LessWrong posts, ala Google Docs
It’s been commented on before that much intellectual work in the EA/Rat community languishes behind private Google Docs. I think one reason is just that the inline-commenting mechanism on a GDoc is so much better than excerpting the comment below. Has the Lightcone team considered this/what is the status?
(I vaguely recall them working on a live-collab feature, not sure if commenting would have been part of this)
If you go into a draft of a post and highlite text you can see a comment button. When I just tested it, clicking the button did nothing but at least the button to create comments is there.
Okay, now I’ve used the live-collab/commenting feature on a LessWrong draft. It’s pretty good! If you haven’t seen it yet, I’d recommend writing a new LW post and requesting feedback; Justis Millis’s feedback was super fast, highly detailed, and all-around incredibly valuable!
Can I turn on inline comments for a published LessWrong post too? Even after “publishing” it’d super useful to get the comments inline. In my view, a great post should be a timeless, living, breathing, collaborative document, rather than a bunch of words dumped out once and never revisited.
(There’s value in the latter in terms for eg news posts; but LW’s focus is less on that.)
Thank you!