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).
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.