I’ve made a few updates to the Review UI over the past week. (I apologize to people who keep having the UI shift a little bit underneath them, although I think it’s overall an improvement).
Quick Review Page
I originally designed the Review Dashboard as basically a powertool for powerusers. The Review is kinda intrinsically a complex operation, and for my own use case, I think I needed a view that showed a lot of information. I went and tried to simplify it recently, and found that, nope, all the complexity was actually serving an important purpose.
But, it sure was overwhelming. And having thought through the ideal poweruser use-case, I finally had an easier time figuring out a more simplified UI that tries to just get you to do one thing, reasonably easily.
So, behold the Quick Review Page. This basically tells you “please try to review 3 posts if you can”, and shows you the top-10 unreviewed posts (based on the votes from 1000+ karma users in the Nomination Voting phase).
It doesn’t cover everything you might possibly want. There’s a lot of posts I think would benefit from multiple reviews (Quick Review only shows un-reviewed posts). So I do recommend still checking out the Advanced Review Dashboard, which provides more customized sorting options. But, if you look at the advanced dashboard and go “aaaaah”, or “uuugggh why does it take so long to load?”, the Quick Review page loads much faster and probably gets you most of the value.
3 Review “checkboxes”
I think it’s a reasonable “be a good citizen of LessWrong” ask to do at least 3 quick reviews, to help provide some longterm signal. I’m most interested in this from longterm users so on the frontpage it only shows from 1000+ karma users, although they appear for all users on the dashboard pages.
This is just a UI nudge, obviously a lot of people are busy, or aren’t that invested in LessWrong, and that’s fine.
Reviews page
You can now easily see reviews from previous years on the /reviews page. You can filter by year, or see all reviews from all time.
Longform Reviews
Some people have historically written up longform, top-level-post reviews, that either go into a lot more detail evaluating one post, or review a lot of posts at once and maybe look at some high level themes that emerge. I wanted to more explicitly encourage people to do that. So there is now a button on the dashboard pages
You can find it at the bottom-right of the Quick Review or Advanced Dashboard. Functionally it’s only slightly different from the normal New Post edit form. In future years I might incorporate Top Level Review posts into the rest of the Review UI.
I’ve made a few updates to the Review UI over the past week. (I apologize to people who keep having the UI shift a little bit underneath them, although I think it’s overall an improvement).
Quick Review Page
I originally designed the Review Dashboard as basically a powertool for powerusers. The Review is kinda intrinsically a complex operation, and for my own use case, I think I needed a view that showed a lot of information. I went and tried to simplify it recently, and found that, nope, all the complexity was actually serving an important purpose.
But, it sure was overwhelming. And having thought through the ideal poweruser use-case, I finally had an easier time figuring out a more simplified UI that tries to just get you to do one thing, reasonably easily.
So, behold the Quick Review Page. This basically tells you “please try to review 3 posts if you can”, and shows you the top-10 unreviewed posts (based on the votes from 1000+ karma users in the Nomination Voting phase).
It doesn’t cover everything you might possibly want. There’s a lot of posts I think would benefit from multiple reviews (Quick Review only shows un-reviewed posts). So I do recommend still checking out the Advanced Review Dashboard, which provides more customized sorting options. But, if you look at the advanced dashboard and go “aaaaah”, or “uuugggh why does it take so long to load?”, the Quick Review page loads much faster and probably gets you most of the value.
3 Review “checkboxes”
I think it’s a reasonable “be a good citizen of LessWrong” ask to do at least 3 quick reviews, to help provide some longterm signal. I’m most interested in this from longterm users so on the frontpage it only shows from 1000+ karma users, although they appear for all users on the dashboard pages.
This is just a UI nudge, obviously a lot of people are busy, or aren’t that invested in LessWrong, and that’s fine.
Reviews page
You can now easily see reviews from previous years on the /reviews page. You can filter by year, or see all reviews from all time.
Longform Reviews
Some people have historically written up longform, top-level-post reviews, that either go into a lot more detail evaluating one post, or review a lot of posts at once and maybe look at some high level themes that emerge. I wanted to more explicitly encourage people to do that. So there is now a button on the dashboard pages
You can find it at the bottom-right of the Quick Review or Advanced Dashboard. Functionally it’s only slightly different from the normal New Post edit form. In future years I might incorporate Top Level Review posts into the rest of the Review UI.