Feels like the right answer looks less like a newsfeed as the main visibility mechanism, and more like tvtropes. I don’t know how to translate that into actual design, but I guess think about ways to encourage moving around a graph locally rather than accessing everything from the home page?
That would probably be a good thing to think about in general, too, since a more graphical model would better leverage LW’s massive pool of evergreen content—newsfeeds aren’t so good for that.
Yeah. One of my worries is the interim period where people haven’t gotten used to navigating around tvtropes style. How do you bootstrap that?
A possible eventual goals for for the /questions page is to design it as a very different landing page that’s optimized quite differently. But my guess is people still wouldn’t use it, by default.
As a concrete example to think about: suppose there were a highly visible “related” sidebar on every content page. Related questions, related posts, what have you. (Not necessarily advocating this, it’s just something concrete to think around.)
This wouldn’t be mutually exclusive with the main home page, or any other centralized discovery page. It could become more important over time, as people click on things out of curiosity. People wouldn’t need to learn a new navigation habit all at once; it could just happen organically. Indeed, it would probably be pretty minor at first, until the recommendation algorithm got sorted out.
Any method of making links in posts/questions more actionable would serve a similar role—e.g. that preview thing wikipedia has when you hover over a link.
Yeah, each of those are things that are in the pipeline, and maybe they’ll just be sufficient. I guess I’m just worried they won’t be enough, but maybe they’ll incrementally improve this sort of thing at roughly the same rate that question volume goes up.
Feels like the right answer looks less like a newsfeed as the main visibility mechanism, and more like tvtropes. I don’t know how to translate that into actual design, but I guess think about ways to encourage moving around a graph locally rather than accessing everything from the home page?
That would probably be a good thing to think about in general, too, since a more graphical model would better leverage LW’s massive pool of evergreen content—newsfeeds aren’t so good for that.
Yeah. One of my worries is the interim period where people haven’t gotten used to navigating around tvtropes style. How do you bootstrap that?
A possible eventual goals for for the /questions page is to design it as a very different landing page that’s optimized quite differently. But my guess is people still wouldn’t use it, by default.
As a concrete example to think about: suppose there were a highly visible “related” sidebar on every content page. Related questions, related posts, what have you. (Not necessarily advocating this, it’s just something concrete to think around.)
This wouldn’t be mutually exclusive with the main home page, or any other centralized discovery page. It could become more important over time, as people click on things out of curiosity. People wouldn’t need to learn a new navigation habit all at once; it could just happen organically. Indeed, it would probably be pretty minor at first, until the recommendation algorithm got sorted out.
Any method of making links in posts/questions more actionable would serve a similar role—e.g. that preview thing wikipedia has when you hover over a link.
Yeah, each of those are things that are in the pipeline, and maybe they’ll just be sufficient. I guess I’m just worried they won’t be enough, but maybe they’ll incrementally improve this sort of thing at roughly the same rate that question volume goes up.