Can you send me a screenshot of your text, together with your browser version and OS? I’ve noticed some OS and browser issues with how the font renders, and this has at least caused some people to see the font as much thinner and grayer than intended.
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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.
Yeah, this was a bug I accidentally seem to have introduced a bit ago. I apologize. The correct ratio I wanted to use was the one that Tufte CSS uses, which is 21px size to 30px height, which is a much more reasonable ratio. (This will be fixed in the next few days)
Yeah, I apologize. Getting a complete copy of the database requires us to coordinate with Trike Apps and is a lot of work for everyone, so we are limiting the number of complete ports to 2 (i.e. one three months ago, and one on launch).
I am working on a merge-accounts feature, so while I can’t absolutely guarantee one, it’s very likely you will have the ability to merge your old LW account with any temporary account you create now.
We have a copy of the database from 3 months ago (will be updating to a more recent one on launch), but this means that if you added an email to your account later than that we might not have it.
Sure, happy to change the email address associated with your account!
Just send me a pm with the email you want it changed to, and I will make the modification.
I think I’ve figured it out. Some email servers have very strict spam requirements, and I hadn’t set up our MX records properly (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/MX_record). This caused the emails to go through for a large majority of users, but not some who had custom domain setups with strong spam filters. This should be fixed now.
Really sorry for the trouble.
Sorry, there was a miscommunication at an earlier point. We did not send out password-reset emails to everyone, however you can request a password-reset email in the login form on the new LessWrong, which should work well.
Hmm, maybe you had a different email registered than the one you are checking? Can you send me a PM with your preferred email? I am happy to change it to that then.
Hmm, is there anything in particular that is not working? We fixed a few bugs over the last few hours, but the page should have been functional since 4PM.
I apologize!
I noticed a bug with your user account in particular in our logs, though I am not exactly sure what caused it. I fixed it now. Sorry for the inconvenience. Requesting another password reset email now should work well. And if anything else goes wrong, always feel free to ping us on Intercom in the bottom right corner, we are currently on high-alert and so are responding within 5 minutes (and usually respond within the half hour)
Update: Open beta will happen today by 4pm Pacific time. At this point you will be able to sign up / login with your LW 1.0 accounts (if the latter, you should request a password-rest email, as we did not copy over your passwords).
Oh, that’s cool! I didn’t know that.
This does update me towards the wiki being important. I just pinged Malo on whether I can get access to the LessWrong wiki analytics, so that I can look a bit more into this.
Apparently me and Ben responded to this at the same time. We seem to have mostly said the same things, so we are apparently fairly in sync.
“Can anyone make a personal page? Are there any requirements for the content—does it need to be “rationality” themed, or can it be whatever the user wants (with the expectation that only LW-appropriate stuff will get promoted to the general frontpage)? Can a user get kicked off for inappropriate content (whatever that means)?”
Current answer to all of those is:
I don’t have a plan for that yet, let’s figure it out as we run into that problem. For now having too much traffic or content to the site seems like a less important error mode, even if that content is bad, as long as it doesn’t clog up the attention of everyone else.
I would probably suggest warning and eventually banning people who repeatedly try to bring highly controversial politics onto the site, or who repeatedly act in bad faith or taste, so I don’t think we want to leave those personal pages fully unmoderated. But the moderation threshold should be a good bit higher than on the main page. No other constraints on content for now.
Wow… yes. This is the second time in this comment thread that I forgot to add a “dis” in front of a word.
Thanks for the recommendations!
“This is a slightly odd comment, if only because “hierarchical or tag-based structures” describes almost all extant websites that aggregate / archive / collect content in any way!”
Well, the emphasis here was on the “more”. I.e. there are more feed based architectures, and there are more taxonomy/tagging based architectures. There is a spectrum, and reddit very much leans towards the feed direction, which is what LessWrong has historically been. And wiki’s very much lean towards the taxonomy spectrum. I feel we want to be somewhere in between, but I don’t know where yet.
We are planning to leave the wiki up, and probably restyle it at some point, so it will not be gone. User accounts will no longer be shared though, for the foreseeable future, which I don’t think will be too much of an issue.
But I don’t yet have a model of how to make the wiki in general work well. The current wiki is definitely useful, but I feel that it’s main use has been the creation of sequences and collections of posts, which is now integrated more deeply into the site via the sequences functionality.
“How does this incentivise downvoting?”
Sorry, my bad. I wanted to write “disincentivize”, but failed. I guess it’s a warning against using big words.
Awesome! I will install this myself and see what we might want to steal for the main LW 2.0 stylesheet.