Intended structure of the page is (which is not yet that clear): There are featured posts which are promoted by moderators and very high karma members, there are frontpage posts, which are posts that are addressed to everyone, and then there are posts on your private user page which can only be found on the “all posts” page and by people who are subscribed to you.
The goal is to make it easy to get the best content on LessWrong for multiple levels of investment. I.e. if you just want to read the 5 best posts in a week you can just read the featured posts, if you want to actively participate in the communal discussion you read the frontpage posts, and if you want to discover new content you go to All Posts and subscribe to authors who write interesting things.
The default on the new LessWrong is not to post something to everyone, but to post something to your own private page, and if it gets popular enough or a moderator promotes it, does it end up visible to everyone.
Old-LW makes it easy to see everything in something like chronological order, and therefore to know you haven’t missed anything you’d want to have read. I think this is a very important feature for something that’s trying to be a community and not merely a social news aggregator like Hacker News: if I miss something interesting, I also miss the discussion that happens in its comments and lose the context it provides for future discussion.
At present, LesserWrong doesn’t (so far as I can see) make it at all easy for me to see everything that’s been posted and to know I’ve seen everything. I think this is my single biggest gripe about the site.
Oh yes, so there are. The first one is available via the dropdown from “LESSWRONG” at the top left. How does one get to the latter, other than entering the URL by hand?
If you scroll down the front page until you see the “Recent comments” section, there is a small link to “see all comments” underneath the section heading.
Not only is that obscure, it’s shows the comments as abbreviated and doesn’t let you reply to them. It’s not so much as a list of comments as it is a list of things that you can use as comments if you take a couple of extra steps.
Intended structure of the page is (which is not yet that clear): There are featured posts which are promoted by moderators and very high karma members, there are frontpage posts, which are posts that are addressed to everyone, and then there are posts on your private user page which can only be found on the “all posts” page and by people who are subscribed to you.
The goal is to make it easy to get the best content on LessWrong for multiple levels of investment. I.e. if you just want to read the 5 best posts in a week you can just read the featured posts, if you want to actively participate in the communal discussion you read the frontpage posts, and if you want to discover new content you go to All Posts and subscribe to authors who write interesting things.
The default on the new LessWrong is not to post something to everyone, but to post something to your own private page, and if it gets popular enough or a moderator promotes it, does it end up visible to everyone.
Old-LW makes it easy to see everything in something like chronological order, and therefore to know you haven’t missed anything you’d want to have read. I think this is a very important feature for something that’s trying to be a community and not merely a social news aggregator like Hacker News: if I miss something interesting, I also miss the discussion that happens in its comments and lose the context it provides for future discussion.
At present, LesserWrong doesn’t (so far as I can see) make it at all easy for me to see everything that’s been posted and to know I’ve seen everything. I think this is my single biggest gripe about the site.
There is this for all posts arranged by day, and there is this for all comments which you can sort by time.
Oh yes, so there are. The first one is available via the dropdown from “LESSWRONG” at the top left. How does one get to the latter, other than entering the URL by hand?
If you scroll down the front page until you see the “Recent comments” section, there is a small link to “see all comments” underneath the section heading.
Not only is that obscure, it’s shows the comments as abbreviated and doesn’t let you reply to them. It’s not so much as a list of comments as it is a list of things that you can use as comments if you take a couple of extra steps.