We have a planned overhaul of LessWrong’s subscription system which will allow you to subscribe to posts, comments, users, and private messages thereby receiving notifications and/or emails.
Sweet! Not sure how mature development is, but if it’s still in an immature state, here are some feature ideas:
A view of the number of subscribers to a particular thread, so I can figure out if it’s worth my time to leave a comment even if the thread is pretty old.
A user configuration option that allows me to subscribe to what I read by default, and opt out if I’m uninterested in following the discussion going forward.
I think there are some benefits of moving to more of an equilibrium where people are subscribing to discussions by default, so then there is less pressure to check the forum frequently if you want to write comments people will actually see.
Sweet! Not sure how mature development is, but if it’s still in an immature state, here are some feature ideas:
A view of the number of subscribers to a particular thread, so I can figure out if it’s worth my time to leave a comment even if the thread is pretty old.
A user configuration option that allows me to subscribe to what I read by default, and opt out if I’m uninterested in following the discussion going forward.
I think there are some benefits of moving to more of an equilibrium where people are subscribing to discussions by default, so then there is less pressure to check the forum frequently if you want to write comments people will actually see.
Yeah, something like this seems good and quite doable.