Old-LW makes it easy to see everything in something like chronological order, and therefore to know you haven’t missed anything you’d want to have read. I think this is a very important feature for something that’s trying to be a community and not merely a social news aggregator like Hacker News: if I miss something interesting, I also miss the discussion that happens in its comments and lose the context it provides for future discussion.
At present, LesserWrong doesn’t (so far as I can see) make it at all easy for me to see everything that’s been posted and to know I’ve seen everything. I think this is my single biggest gripe about the site.
Oh yes, so there are. The first one is available via the dropdown from “LESSWRONG” at the top left. How does one get to the latter, other than entering the URL by hand?
If you scroll down the front page until you see the “Recent comments” section, there is a small link to “see all comments” underneath the section heading.
Not only is that obscure, it’s shows the comments as abbreviated and doesn’t let you reply to them. It’s not so much as a list of comments as it is a list of things that you can use as comments if you take a couple of extra steps.
Old-LW makes it easy to see everything in something like chronological order, and therefore to know you haven’t missed anything you’d want to have read. I think this is a very important feature for something that’s trying to be a community and not merely a social news aggregator like Hacker News: if I miss something interesting, I also miss the discussion that happens in its comments and lose the context it provides for future discussion.
At present, LesserWrong doesn’t (so far as I can see) make it at all easy for me to see everything that’s been posted and to know I’ve seen everything. I think this is my single biggest gripe about the site.
There is this for all posts arranged by day, and there is this for all comments which you can sort by time.
Oh yes, so there are. The first one is available via the dropdown from “LESSWRONG” at the top left. How does one get to the latter, other than entering the URL by hand?
If you scroll down the front page until you see the “Recent comments” section, there is a small link to “see all comments” underneath the section heading.
Not only is that obscure, it’s shows the comments as abbreviated and doesn’t let you reply to them. It’s not so much as a list of comments as it is a list of things that you can use as comments if you take a couple of extra steps.