[As a side note, I notice that the habit of “pepper things with hyperlinks whenever possible” seems to be less common on modern LW than it was on old LW, but I think it was actually a pretty great habit and I’d like to see more of it.]
Thanks for bringing up the hyperlink thing; I will use them more liberally in the future. When writing for a LW audience, I tend to lean toward fewer links to avoid sounding patronizing. But actually thinking about it for a second, that seems like a very questionable gain with a significant cost.
Yeah, this seems true. Might be subtle UI things. We could probably also push towards this by making searching for links easier, for example by having a Github style search that shows up when you start typing some character (like / or #)
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[As a side note, I notice that the habit of “pepper things with hyperlinks whenever possible” seems to be less common on modern LW than it was on old LW, but I think it was actually a pretty great habit and I’d like to see more of it.]
Thanks for bringing up the hyperlink thing; I will use them more liberally in the future. When writing for a LW audience, I tend to lean toward fewer links to avoid sounding patronizing. But actually thinking about it for a second, that seems like a very questionable gain with a significant cost.
Yeah, this seems true. Might be subtle UI things. We could probably also push towards this by making searching for links easier, for example by having a Github style search that shows up when you start typing some character (like
/or#)Seconded.