Yes! It’s just that the feel of the two websites are so different. And part of it may be my imagination. But it feels like the old HPMOR site is a simple elegant wrapper around the book, while on here it is the book is dumped into a website that wasn’t made for it. Like the difference between a person wearing clothes, and someone inside of a giant human shaped suit that mimicked their motions.
That is literally true. The old HPMOR site was just there to host the book as cleanly as possible. Lesswrong is a discussion forum with a lot of functionality. You can host a book on a discussion forum, but it’ll never be as smooth.
The normal explanation is “measurement and monetization”. It’s very hard to exploit a reader’s attention if you simply deliver the text. I don’t want to believe that’s the reason for this—more likely simply it’s more expedient (cheaper) to have it on LW than it’s own site.
Ugh. Why does everyone need to replace nice static web pages with junk that wants to perform a couple http requests every time the window changes:
Retracted given that it turns out this wasn’t a deliberate migration.
Yes! It’s just that the feel of the two websites are so different. And part of it may be my imagination. But it feels like the old HPMOR site is a simple elegant wrapper around the book, while on here it is the book is dumped into a website that wasn’t made for it. Like the difference between a person wearing clothes, and someone inside of a giant human shaped suit that mimicked their motions.
That is literally true. The old HPMOR site was just there to host the book as cleanly as possible. Lesswrong is a discussion forum with a lot of functionality. You can host a book on a discussion forum, but it’ll never be as smooth.
The normal explanation is “measurement and monetization”. It’s very hard to exploit a reader’s attention if you simply deliver the text. I don’t want to believe that’s the reason for this—more likely simply it’s more expedient (cheaper) to have it on LW than it’s own site.