That’s too bad; it probably doesn’t have to be that way. If you can articulate what infrastructural features of 1.0 are missing from 2.0, perhaps the folks at 2.0 can accommodate them in some way.
At the moment their focus is on making 2.0 fast to load and given how important page loading time is I agree with that prioritisation. I think afterwards they want to improve the commenting experience.
One critical feature that’s currently missing is notifications when someone replies to one’s post or comment. I could also imagine a page that allows me to see all comments on comments that I upvoted and similar ways to list comments towards which I might reply.
Currently, there’s no open thread on LW 2.0 and it might be a good idea to have one.
Generally, it would be nice to have a specific support for regular threads. For example, if exactly one (the most recent) of each kind would be displayed on the front page; so you would have a section “regular threads” with links to the most recent open thread, media thread, stupid questions thread, etc.
To avoid abuse, only the moderators could create a new type of regular thread. There could also be a way to propose new regular threads, for example by having “proposed regular thread” as yet another type of a regular thread (i.e. all proposed threads would compete for one spot on the home page). In other words, only a new “Open Thread” could replace the previous “Open Thread” (because “Open Thread” is an officially supported thing), but e.g. an experimental “Rational Toothpaste Thread” would replace the yesterday’s “Rational Jokes Thread” (because both are unsupported).
The 2.0 folks made a deliberate decision to step away from “let’s just all talk about stuff” towards “people should write essays and others should attend to these essays and respectfully comment”.
To be clear, I wish them well and hope for the best. LW 1.0 has been dying slowly for quite some time, and a new direction is probably a good idea, even if it’s not my cup of tea. I’ll likely still check in a bit.
It’s probably time to formally shut down LW1.0, though. It’s confusing to have two independent things called “less wrong”.
I believe LW 2.0 is now technically in open beta and once it ends (Nov 1, I think), there will be a vote about closing down LW 1.0 and moving everything over to 2.0.
NOTHING WILL BE SHUT DOWN UNTIL MEETUP FUNCTIONALITY IS ON THE NEW SITE. Many many active meetups run through 1.0. It’s staying until functionality is over there.
Yep, though I do expect this to happen at least in its basic functionality by the end of the year, though we might not be able to get full feature parity before we move over towards the new site. I would be interested in getting a list of the most important features you see for our meetup functionality.
Being able to set a date and time for a meetup. (end time not desperately important)
Being able to set a geographical location for meetups.
When a meetup is created, local people are notified by email of the meetup. (every user has a location set)
A description of the meetup (freeform text)
Bonus:
.5. Being able to set a recurring meetup. At the end of the last meetup the organiser is sent a link via email to “schedule the next meetup”. (this avoids dead meetups staying around by opt-in reschedule.) .6. Cohost listed, links to other listing’s .7. Import from other sites ie. Meetup, Facebook. .8. Export to other sites—I. E. Meetup, Facebook. .9. Photo sharing of meetups and communal photo repository.
That’s too bad; it probably doesn’t have to be that way. If you can articulate what infrastructural features of 1.0 are missing from 2.0, perhaps the folks at 2.0 can accommodate them in some way.
At the moment their focus is on making 2.0 fast to load and given how important page loading time is I agree with that prioritisation. I think afterwards they want to improve the commenting experience.
One critical feature that’s currently missing is notifications when someone replies to one’s post or comment. I could also imagine a page that allows me to see all comments on comments that I upvoted and similar ways to list comments towards which I might reply.
Currently, there’s no open thread on LW 2.0 and it might be a good idea to have one.
open thread, welcome thread, media thread, stupid questions thread.
Generally, it would be nice to have a specific support for regular threads. For example, if exactly one (the most recent) of each kind would be displayed on the front page; so you would have a section “regular threads” with links to the most recent open thread, media thread, stupid questions thread, etc.
To avoid abuse, only the moderators could create a new type of regular thread. There could also be a way to propose new regular threads, for example by having “proposed regular thread” as yet another type of a regular thread (i.e. all proposed threads would compete for one spot on the home page). In other words, only a new “Open Thread” could replace the previous “Open Thread” (because “Open Thread” is an officially supported thing), but e.g. an experimental “Rational Toothpaste Thread” would replace the yesterday’s “Rational Jokes Thread” (because both are unsupported).
I did create the stupid questions thread.
The 2.0 folks made a deliberate decision to step away from “let’s just all talk about stuff” towards “people should write essays and others should attend to these essays and respectfully comment”.
To be clear, I wish them well and hope for the best. LW 1.0 has been dying slowly for quite some time, and a new direction is probably a good idea, even if it’s not my cup of tea. I’ll likely still check in a bit.
It’s probably time to formally shut down LW1.0, though. It’s confusing to have two independent things called “less wrong”.
I believe LW 2.0 is now technically in open beta and once it ends (Nov 1, I think), there will be a vote about closing down LW 1.0 and moving everything over to 2.0.
NOTHING WILL BE SHUT DOWN UNTIL MEETUP FUNCTIONALITY IS ON THE NEW SITE. Many many active meetups run through 1.0. It’s staying until functionality is over there.
Yep, though I do expect this to happen at least in its basic functionality by the end of the year, though we might not be able to get full feature parity before we move over towards the new site. I would be interested in getting a list of the most important features you see for our meetup functionality.
Being able to set a date and time for a meetup. (end time not desperately important)
Being able to set a geographical location for meetups.
When a meetup is created, local people are notified by email of the meetup. (every user has a location set)
A description of the meetup (freeform text)
Bonus:
.5. Being able to set a recurring meetup. At the end of the last meetup the organiser is sent a link via email to “schedule the next meetup”. (this avoids dead meetups staying around by opt-in reschedule.)
.6. Cohost listed, links to other listing’s
.7. Import from other sites ie. Meetup, Facebook.
.8. Export to other sites—I. E. Meetup, Facebook.
.9. Photo sharing of meetups and communal photo repository.
So, from my perspective, “almost no discussion on LW1.0” is equivalent to “shut down”, but less clear.
LW2.0 is getting all the new content, so calling it “beta” is misleading.