To the LW devs—just want to mention that this website is probably now the most well designed forum I have ever used. The UX is almost addictively good and I’ve been loving all of the little improvements over the past year or so.
I find LW.com hard to use (because I have yet to find a way to disable the mouseovers, which quickly deplete my orienting response, about which I can explain more if asked) but LW is better than most sites in that alternative interfaces can be created. In particular, I use greaterwrong.com as my interface and am pretty satisfied with it (though it was slow for a lot of the last 2 months).
But I strongly upvoted parent because it is good reminder to me of the cognitive diversity in the human population.
I wrote somewhere that this is the only forum that looks to me the result of Intelligent Design, and not an accident. It’s the only one that looks like I AM trying to intelligently design the forum MYSELF, including going back in time after discovering problems and fixing them (or just thinking in advance for five minutes on each aspect “how can I hack this / what are the vulnerabilities of this system of rules /how trolls can use it”). The point is not only that, unlike many other sites, I don’t think every five minutes “why can’t X be here”, the point is that I look somewhere and see in advance that something is provided that I don’t I had time to think, and some kind of protection was made against the exploitation of vulnerabilities in the system of rules or even involuntary errors in human psychology.
I agree completely. The last N weeks or so there have been performance problems, but all of the little things… Version history on posts, strong upvotes/downvotes, restoration of comments… They make writing things just fun.
If we still talk about shortcomings, then I would still be able to name 4, I wrote about the first two in the questions: lack of arrows between sequences; useless SEQ RERUNs for the sake of comments and problems with missing nested answers to questions in old comments; lately performance problems (which turned out to be lesswrong problems, not mine, so I didn’t count them before); the fact that from time to time they vote for you once in the minus for completely incomprehensible reasons and then this value does not return to the plus (but as far as I understand, setting the need to indicate the reason for a bad vote will be either harmful or not very useful measure). But considering that for all this time I have found the number of minuses that can be counted on the fingers of one hand, while on any other site they literally pour from every element every second like from a cornucopia and instead of eliminating them, monthly useless graphic updates are made .. All in all, this is just a surprisingly good result, although (there is no limit to perfection) I hope at least three of them will be fixed in the coming months (how about the last one I do not know and there seems to be reasons why it is not fixed. But just in case I I note this minus, otherwise, as in the case of glitches, it turns out recently that everyone simply did not report it).
To the LW devs—just want to mention that this website is probably now the most well designed forum I have ever used. The UX is almost addictively good and I’ve been loving all of the little improvements over the past year or so.
Ditto here; kudos to everyone involved in creating such an excellent forum design!
I find LW.com hard to use (because I have yet to find a way to disable the mouseovers, which quickly deplete my orienting response, about which I can explain more if asked) but LW is better than most sites in that alternative interfaces can be created. In particular, I use greaterwrong.com as my interface and am pretty satisfied with it (though it was slow for a lot of the last 2 months).
But I strongly upvoted parent because it is good reminder to me of the cognitive diversity in the human population.
I wrote somewhere that this is the only forum that looks to me the result of Intelligent Design, and not an accident. It’s the only one that looks like I AM trying to intelligently design the forum MYSELF, including going back in time after discovering problems and fixing them (or just thinking in advance for five minutes on each aspect “how can I hack this / what are the vulnerabilities of this system of rules /how trolls can use it”). The point is not only that, unlike many other sites, I don’t think every five minutes “why can’t X be here”, the point is that I look somewhere and see in advance that something is provided that I don’t I had time to think, and some kind of protection was made against the exploitation of vulnerabilities in the system of rules or even involuntary errors in human psychology.
I agree completely. The last N weeks or so there have been performance problems, but all of the little things… Version history on posts, strong upvotes/downvotes, restoration of comments… They make writing things just fun.
If we still talk about shortcomings, then I would still be able to name 4, I wrote about the first two in the questions: lack of arrows between sequences; useless SEQ RERUNs for the sake of comments and problems with missing nested answers to questions in old comments; lately performance problems (which turned out to be lesswrong problems, not mine, so I didn’t count them before); the fact that from time to time they vote for you once in the minus for completely incomprehensible reasons and then this value does not return to the plus (but as far as I understand, setting the need to indicate the reason for a bad vote will be either harmful or not very useful measure). But considering that for all this time I have found the number of minuses that can be counted on the fingers of one hand, while on any other site they literally pour from every element every second like from a cornucopia and instead of eliminating them, monthly useless graphic updates are made .. All in all, this is just a surprisingly good result, although (there is no limit to perfection) I hope at least three of them will be fixed in the coming months (how about the last one I do not know and there seems to be reasons why it is not fixed. But just in case I I note this minus, otherwise, as in the case of glitches, it turns out recently that everyone simply did not report it).