In the past you (Raemon) have referred to this as the “shortform feed,” but in this post you don’t. Is this intentional? (But then in the comments, you say “feed” again.)
To me “feed” suggests a chronological order. Have you considered making the shortform posts sort by age of comment, just as lists of posts usually do?
Similarly, when LW migrated from OB, adding nesting and voting, it made the OB posts sort their comments in chronological order, to preserve the conversation structure. With the advent of 2.0, these posts have lost their special status and are sorted by votes, making the comment conversation unreadable (example). If you do implement a default sort nudge, you should apply it to these posts, too.
Before we implemented shortform as a feature, some people created posts for themselves to put comments on and called them “shortform feeds”. This is a misnomer, because they’re not feeds in any sense of the word, so we decided not to call them that. But it looks like there were some residual linguistic habits.
In the past you (Raemon) have referred to this as the “shortform feed,” but in this post you don’t. Is this intentional? (But then in the comments, you say “feed” again.)
To me “feed” suggests a chronological order. Have you considered making the shortform posts sort by age of comment, just as lists of posts usually do?
Similarly, when LW migrated from OB, adding nesting and voting, it made the OB posts sort their comments in chronological order, to preserve the conversation structure. With the advent of 2.0, these posts have lost their special status and are sorted by votes, making the comment conversation unreadable (example). If you do implement a default sort nudge, you should apply it to these posts, too.
[I guess this comment should have gone here.]
Before we implemented shortform as a feature, some people created posts for themselves to put comments on and called them “shortform feeds”. This is a misnomer, because they’re not feeds in any sense of the word, so we decided not to call them that. But it looks like there were some residual linguistic habits.
The OB thing is incorrect. The comments on the post you linked are by default sorted in chronological order, same as on old LW:
Thanks. I guess I got confused from mainly using greaterwrong, but I did test it before posting.