The new LessWrong Feed is now out of beta/AB-test and into general release. If you were previously in the control arm of the A/B test, you might be surprised now to see the “Your Feed” section, but it is now here for all!
For some users, Recent Discussion provided something valuable but I think it being a firehouse of all content with no smart prioritization or filtering of what to show you, together with a ~cluttered design, made it not a great basis for content-section for the site. The New Feed is trying to improve on both the UI and algorithm front.
If you are missing the old Recent Discussion, please speak up with what you liked about it. I don’t expect to restore it and I think it’d be too costly to offer both, but am interested in making it possible to get the same use cases out of the New Feed. See LessWrong Feed [new, now in beta] for more discussion of the Feed Vision. Also note the existing of the Following Feed that is a full chronological firehouse of everyone you’ve followed, no fancy algorithm applied.
I’ve actually been working the past week or two on an improved algorithm for the New Feed that both prioritizes better and is relatively more transparent[1] over why it is serving the content it is. I just rolled this out to admins and once it is tweaked, plan to move that into an A/B test across all feed users.
The new LessWrong Feed is now out of beta/AB-test and into general release. If you were previously in the control arm of the A/B test, you might be surprised now to see the “Your Feed” section, but it is now here for all!
For some users, Recent Discussion provided something valuable but I think it being a firehouse of all content with no smart prioritization or filtering of what to show you, together with a ~cluttered design, made it not a great basis for content-section for the site. The New Feed is trying to improve on both the UI and algorithm front.
If you are missing the old Recent Discussion, please speak up with what you liked about it. I don’t expect to restore it and I think it’d be too costly to offer both, but am interested in making it possible to get the same use cases out of the New Feed. See LessWrong Feed [new, now in beta] for more discussion of the Feed Vision. Also note the existing of the Following Feed that is a full chronological firehouse of everyone you’ve followed, no fancy algorithm applied.
I’ve actually been working the past week or two on an improved algorithm for the New Feed that both prioritizes better and is relatively more transparent[1] over why it is serving the content it is. I just rolled this out to admins and once it is tweaked, plan to move that into an A/B test across all feed users.
Preview of some upcoming UI
I don’t want to commit us to always have a transparent, interpretable feed, but this current one is.