Running Lightcone Infrastructure, which runs LessWrong. You can reach me at habryka@lesswrong.com
habryka(Oliver Habryka)
Karma: 31,868
Basic Quality of life:
Add Katex support for comments and posts
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Allow merging with old LessWrong 1.0 accounts
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Fix old LessWrong 1.0 links
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Create unique links for each comment
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Make comments collapsible
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Highlight new comments since last visit
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Highlight new comments since last visit
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Improve automatic spam-detection
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Add RSS feed links with adjustable karma thresholds
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Create better documentation for the page, add tooltips and create onboarding processes
Improved Moderation Tools:
New Karma system that weighs your votes based on your Karma
Improved Moderation Tools:
Give moderators ability to suspend comment threads for a limited amount of time
Improved Moderation Tools:
Give trusted post-authors moderation ability on their own posts (deleting comments, temporarily suspending users from posts, etc.)
Improved Moderation Tools:
Add reporting feature to comments
Improved Moderation Tools:
Give moderators and admins access to a database query interface to identify negative vote patterns
New Content Types:
Add sequences as a top-level content-type with UI for navigating sequences in order, metadata on a sequence, and keeping track of which parts you’ve read
New Content Types:
Add Arbital-style predictions as a content block in posts (maybe also as a top-level content type)
New Content Types:
Add ‘Wait-But-Why?’ style footnotes to the editor
New Content Types:
Discussion page that structures discussions more than just a tree format (here is a mockup I designed while working for Arbital, that I am still excited to implement)
Basic Quality of life:
Improve rendering speed on posts with many comments