Thanks for letting me know. Is there anything on my list that you don’t think is a good idea or probably won’t implement, in which case I might start working on them myself, e.g. as a userscript? Especially #5, which is also useful for other reasons, like archiving and searching.
I think we are unlikely to do #2 based on my current guesses of what are good ideas. I think #1 is also kind of unlikely. I think some version of 3,4 and 5 are definitely things I want to explore.
Hey, it’s been 6 months. Can I get an updated ETA on 5 please? If it’s going to take much longer, please let me know and I’ll just code up something myself.
We have a bunch of UI that I would need to modify only a tiny bit to get you #5, I think.
If you imagine the UI at lesswrong.com/autocompleteSettings, but with a “copy to clipboard” button at the bottom, and a user search menu at the top (instead of just having Gwern, Eliezer and Scott), would that work for you?
(Note that the list-plus icon button that you get when hovering over a list entry allows you to mark all elements above the item in the list you are hovering over as checked, so you don’t have to click on dozens of comments manually)
Need: A way to load all comments and posts of a user. Right now it only loads the top N by karma.
Want: A “download” button, for some users who have up to hundreds of MB of content, too unwieldy to copy/paste. Ability to collate/sort in various ways, especially as flat list of mixed posts and comments, sorted by posting date from oldest to newest.
The “load all” and “download” parts are a bit tricky. I don’t super want to give people buttons to download hundreds of megabytes of data from our database, which is at greater risk of causing our DB to fall over and delay other queries people are waiting on. Probably it’s doable, but it makes the feature a bit more complicated.
I’ll give it a quick try tomorrow or by latest end of next week and see whether I can get you what you want. I’ll let you know if turns out more than a hour or two complicated and I might delay it further.
Thanks for letting me know. Is there anything on my list that you don’t think is a good idea or probably won’t implement, in which case I might start working on them myself, e.g. as a userscript? Especially #5, which is also useful for other reasons, like archiving and searching.
I think we are unlikely to do #2 based on my current guesses of what are good ideas. I think #1 is also kind of unlikely. I think some version of 3,4 and 5 are definitely things I want to explore.
Hey, it’s been 6 months. Can I get an updated ETA on 5 please? If it’s going to take much longer, please let me know and I’ll just code up something myself.
We have a bunch of UI that I would need to modify only a tiny bit to get you #5, I think.
If you imagine the UI at lesswrong.com/autocompleteSettings, but with a “copy to clipboard” button at the bottom, and a user search menu at the top (instead of just having Gwern, Eliezer and Scott), would that work for you?
(Note that the list-plus icon button that you get when hovering over a list entry allows you to mark all elements above the item in the list you are hovering over as checked, so you don’t have to click on dozens of comments manually)
Need: A way to load all comments and posts of a user. Right now it only loads the top N by karma.
Want: A “download” button, for some users who have up to hundreds of MB of content, too unwieldy to copy/paste. Ability to collate/sort in various ways, especially as flat list of mixed posts and comments, sorted by posting date from oldest to newest.
The “load all” and “download” parts are a bit tricky. I don’t super want to give people buttons to download hundreds of megabytes of data from our database, which is at greater risk of causing our DB to fall over and delay other queries people are waiting on. Probably it’s doable, but it makes the feature a bit more complicated.
I’ll give it a quick try tomorrow or by latest end of next week and see whether I can get you what you want. I’ll let you know if turns out more than a hour or two complicated and I might delay it further.