I agree with Chris_Leong’s bullet points, but the specific one I was going to make myself was this: “Recent posts is extremely clumsy. Clicking on the title should open it up to a full page view.” More precisely, there should be a specific page that I can go to for just recent posts.
There’s no way I can find to see a user’s comments.
I’m not a fan of the comment textbox that doesn’t look like a textbox.
I’m finding the font reasonably unpleasant in some vague way. I know this was hashed out in the strategic overview thread, but datapoint. (Firefox, OS X.) I think this is more true in comments than top-level posts.
Neither markdown nor HTML seems to work in comments, and URLs don’t even auto-link. I don’t mind the visual editor being there, but I extremely dislike having no alternative to it.
As a more minor thing, I also don’t like the paragraphing; I often use the up/down cursor keys to navigate to the line between paragraphs, then left/right to move to the beginning/end of a paragraph; but I can’t do that when there’s no line between them.
It also doesn’t seem to be possible to highlight text elsewhere in the window and drag-and-drop into the editor.
I tried to edit my profile to add a website URL, but it gave me a “schema validation error”. The problem was that I hadn’t put http:// in the beginning.
When I tried to log in before resetting my password (I came here before reading Vaniver’s post on LW 1.0), I didn’t get an error message, it just didn’t do anything. The dev console told me I had no password assigned.
If I middle-click on the “LESSWRONG” in the top-left, it takes me to the front page in the same tab. That is not what I want or expect.
The difference between a green and grey upvote/downvote arrow is very subtle.
I didn’t get a notification for ozy’s reply to this comment. (Maybe because it’s in meta? I do have comment reply notifications turned on in my settings.) Also, the notification icon doesn’t seem to change depending on whether there are any notifications.
Home/end in the editor scroll the browser, instead of going to beginning/end of line (ctrl-a/e work). This might be a mac thing? I just tested in the hacker news edit box, and that doesn’t scroll the browser or go to beginning/end.
Comment scores seem to get updated live. I appreciate this. I’m not sure how I feel about comment threads being updated live. (I would definitely appreciate some kind of notification that there are new comments.)
Right now I’m finding this website a downgrade from LW 1.0. That’s not a dealbreaker, and I know this one can be improved much more easily, and I’m still grateful to the people who are putting in the effort.
I get “Schema validation error” on adding a URL with the correct scheme to my profile. This turns out to be because the software here likes http:// but not https://. That’s very bad.
Oops, no, I take it back. It doesn’t like it either way. (It just takes a moment before it says “Schema validation error”, so I briefly thought it was OK the second time around.) I don’t know whether there’s anything that one can put in that URL field without producing the error, but two perfectly good URLs both produced it for me.
Interesting. I seem to get “Schema validation error” on anything with any slashes in it. I can enter just the hostname of my site but then I get a link going to the wrong place. (Not just because I’m lacking the path component—it goes to something like https://www.lesserwrong.com/users/gjm/www.mccaughan.org.uk/ which is totally wrong.)
My post appears for me if I go to my profile page and switch the view to “most recent posts.” I am not sure why it only wants to show one post of mine at a time though; this seems pretty confusing.
ETA: when I go to Chris_Leong’s page, it doesn’t show him as having written any blog posts at all, even though he has clearly written a blog post which I am currently commenting on. So perhaps there is some deeper problem?
It looks like on your profile page, the default view lists only an old post of yours, https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/iyGFNMtvmW6nMJwHi/i-m-not-an-effective-altruist-because-i-prefer , which seems not to have been imported properly. If I sort by magical scoring, recent or karma, I see your two recent posts. (Magical scoring claims to be the default, but apparently isn’t. The default isn’t available from that selector.) If I sort by “my drafts” I see nothing. (I’m not sure why this option is available.) If I sort by “day” I get taken to a whole new page, https://www.lesserwrong.com/daily which I am glad to have discovered but I’m not sure what it’s doing linked from there.
(Editing things in as I think of/come across them.)
When I go to my user page (https://www.lesserwrong.com/users/philh), there seems to be no way to access the comments on the link posts that I’ve made.
I agree with Chris_Leong’s bullet points, but the specific one I was going to make myself was this: “Recent posts is extremely clumsy. Clicking on the title should open it up to a full page view.” More precisely, there should be a specific page that I can go to for just recent posts.
There’s no way I can find to see a user’s comments.
I’m not a fan of the comment textbox that doesn’t look like a textbox.
I’m finding the font reasonably unpleasant in some vague way. I know this was hashed out in the strategic overview thread, but datapoint. (Firefox, OS X.) I think this is more true in comments than top-level posts.
Neither markdown nor HTML seems to work in comments, and URLs don’t even auto-link. I don’t mind the visual editor being there, but I extremely dislike having no alternative to it.
As a more minor thing, I also don’t like the paragraphing; I often use the up/down cursor keys to navigate to the line between paragraphs, then left/right to move to the beginning/end of a paragraph; but I can’t do that when there’s no line between them.
It also doesn’t seem to be possible to highlight text elsewhere in the window and drag-and-drop into the editor.
I tried to edit my profile to add a website URL, but it gave me a “schema validation error”. The problem was that I hadn’t put http:// in the beginning.
When I tried to log in before resetting my password (I came here before reading Vaniver’s post on LW 1.0), I didn’t get an error message, it just didn’t do anything. The dev console told me I had no password assigned.
If I middle-click on the “LESSWRONG” in the top-left, it takes me to the front page in the same tab. That is not what I want or expect.
Ozy linked https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/gbNdc7gCXCy2ZWqXe/against-ea-pr from elsewhere. I’m not sure how I’d find it if they hadn’t. It doesn’t seem to be on their profile page or on the front page.
https://lesserwrong.com gives an SSL error page. https://www.lesserwrong.com (with www.) and http://lesserwrong.com (no SSL) don’t.
The difference between a green and grey upvote/downvote arrow is very subtle.
I didn’t get a notification for ozy’s reply to this comment. (Maybe because it’s in meta? I do have comment reply notifications turned on in my settings.) Also, the notification icon doesn’t seem to change depending on whether there are any notifications.
Home/end in the editor scroll the browser, instead of going to beginning/end of line (ctrl-a/e work). This might be a mac thing? I just tested in the hacker news edit box, and that doesn’t scroll the browser or go to beginning/end.
Comment scores seem to get updated live. I appreciate this. I’m not sure how I feel about comment threads being updated live. (I would definitely appreciate some kind of notification that there are new comments.)
Right now I’m finding this website a downgrade from LW 1.0. That’s not a dealbreaker, and I know this one can be improved much more easily, and I’m still grateful to the people who are putting in the effort.
I get “Schema validation error” on adding a URL with the correct scheme to my profile. This turns out to be because the software here likes http:// but not https://. That’s very bad.
Oops, no, I take it back. It doesn’t like it either way. (It just takes a moment before it says “Schema validation error”, so I briefly thought it was OK the second time around.) I don’t know whether there’s anything that one can put in that URL field without producing the error, but two perfectly good URLs both produced it for me.
I found that https://www.thingofthings.wordpress.com did not produce a schema validation error.
Interesting. I seem to get “Schema validation error” on anything with any slashes in it. I can enter just the hostname of my site but then I get a link going to the wrong place. (Not just because I’m lacking the path component—it goes to something like https://www.lesserwrong.com/users/gjm/www.mccaughan.org.uk/ which is totally wrong.)
Sorry!
This was me being an idiot and not thinking before fixing bugs. This should be fixed later today.
Still seems to be broken as of now.
Yeah, it turned out to be a bit harder to fix than I thought. I hope I can get to it today.
Looks like it’s slipped a little. Any idea when it’s actually likely to work?
My post appears for me if I go to my profile page and switch the view to “most recent posts.” I am not sure why it only wants to show one post of mine at a time though; this seems pretty confusing.
ETA: when I go to Chris_Leong’s page, it doesn’t show him as having written any blog posts at all, even though he has clearly written a blog post which I am currently commenting on. So perhaps there is some deeper problem?
It looks like on your profile page, the default view lists only an old post of yours, https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/iyGFNMtvmW6nMJwHi/i-m-not-an-effective-altruist-because-i-prefer , which seems not to have been imported properly. If I sort by magical scoring, recent or karma, I see your two recent posts. (Magical scoring claims to be the default, but apparently isn’t. The default isn’t available from that selector.) If I sort by “my drafts” I see nothing. (I’m not sure why this option is available.) If I sort by “day” I get taken to a whole new page, https://www.lesserwrong.com/daily which I am glad to have discovered but I’m not sure what it’s doing linked from there.
Meanwhile, my page shows a lot of things by default, but only one thing (https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/EAJTMRr8JpnG7Hw6Q/fascists-and-rakes) when I sort. My drafts contains an actual five-year-old draft of mine; that’s neat. Day does the same thing as on yours.
Chris’ page might just not be showing things posted to meta?