Apparently all us folk brimming with ideas for posts didn’t want to deal with the aggravation.
It’s worse than that; I’ve thought of probably upward of a dozen article ideas that I felt momentary inspiration to write, and promptly decided not to because of the Omega-cursed post editor that takes so many more clicks to get to than a comment box and doesn’t accept the same markup.
The solution is to sidestep the technical inconveniences and write the text using whatever tools you are most comfortable with, and then, after the text is written, deal with the inconveniences. This way, the inconveniences are scheduled so that they don’t stand between you and the important part of the task. (I write my posts in LaTeX, for example.)
Huh? The ‘Create new article’ button appears on every page, so long as you’re logged in, so it’s only one click. Using different markup is annoying, but you don’t run into that until you’ve already written some stuff to add markup to.
My OS and browser are badly out of date with the consequence that article submission doesn’t work at all
I am wary of getting sucked in and ending up spending too much time on LessWrong, so this problem is failing to motivate me to get back on the upgrade treadmill. Basically, I’m unclear whether participating in LessWrong is a good use of my time, so I succumb to the temptations of superstition and treat the software problem as an ill-omen and blessing-in-disguise.
Perhaps the parallels to the Great Firewall of China are quite close. The effort required to solve a technical problem is certain, even if quite small. The pay-off is unkown. Lacking vital information one ends up reluctant to hazard even a small stake.
I have no clue how the source editor works. Fortunately, there’s an “html” button there, and I know HTML. The HTML for some of the markup is not obvious, but you can always use the buttons to insert the markup, view the HTML, and then copy-and-paste the HTML into the document you’re working on in your favorite editor.
I wouldn’t edit an important document in a form on a page anyway—my fingers know Emacs, and control-w means “delete selection” in emacs and “delete this tab and my entire form” in Firefox, so I often accidentally delete tabs when editing.
It’s worse than that; I’ve thought of probably upward of a dozen article ideas that I felt momentary inspiration to write, and promptly decided not to because of the Omega-cursed post editor that takes so many more clicks to get to than a comment box and doesn’t accept the same markup.
The solution is to sidestep the technical inconveniences and write the text using whatever tools you are most comfortable with, and then, after the text is written, deal with the inconveniences. This way, the inconveniences are scheduled so that they don’t stand between you and the important part of the task. (I write my posts in LaTeX, for example.)
Huh? The ‘Create new article’ button appears on every page, so long as you’re logged in, so it’s only one click. Using different markup is annoying, but you don’t run into that until you’ve already written some stuff to add markup to.
My OS and browser are badly out of date with the consequence that article submission doesn’t work at all
I am wary of getting sucked in and ending up spending too much time on LessWrong, so this problem is failing to motivate me to get back on the upgrade treadmill. Basically, I’m unclear whether participating in LessWrong is a good use of my time, so I succumb to the temptations of superstition and treat the software problem as an ill-omen and blessing-in-disguise.
Perhaps the parallels to the Great Firewall of China are quite close. The effort required to solve a technical problem is certain, even if quite small. The pay-off is unkown. Lacking vital information one ends up reluctant to hazard even a small stake.
I have no clue how the source editor works. Fortunately, there’s an “html” button there, and I know HTML. The HTML for some of the markup is not obvious, but you can always use the buttons to insert the markup, view the HTML, and then copy-and-paste the HTML into the document you’re working on in your favorite editor.
I wouldn’t edit an important document in a form on a page anyway—my fingers know Emacs, and control-w means “delete selection” in emacs and “delete this tab and my entire form” in Firefox, so I often accidentally delete tabs when editing.