While I think lesswrong provides notable value to me, I don’t think you can just divide the amount of value it’s given me by the number of days since I started reading content on it and say that each individual day is worth that much. If lesswrong were down once a month that wouldn’t remove 1⁄30 of the value of the website; I’d just read those articles on a different day.
While there’s definitely a cost to the front page being down for a day, the fact that I could just wait a day with next-to-no consequence makes it feel not very substantial. Maybe it’s different for other people?
While I think lesswrong provides notable value to me, I don’t think you can just divide the amount of value it’s given me by the number of days since I started reading content on it and say that each individual day is worth that much. If lesswrong were down once a month that wouldn’t remove 1⁄30 of the value of the website; I’d just read those articles on a different day.
While there’s definitely a cost to the front page being down for a day, the fact that I could just wait a day with next-to-no consequence makes it feel not very substantial. Maybe it’s different for other people?