Personally, I liked LW for being an integrated place with all that : the Sequences, interesting posts and discussions between rationalists/transhumanists (be it original thoughts/viewpoints/analysis, news related to those topics, links to related fanfiction, book suggestion, …), and the meetup organization (I went to several meetup in Paris).
If that were to be replaced by many different things (one for news, one or more for discussion, one for meetups, …) I probably wouldn’t bother.
Also, I’m not on Facebook and would not consider going there. I think replacing the open ecosystem of Internet by a proprietary platform is a very dangerous trend for future of innovation, and I oppose the global surveillance that Facebook is part of. I know we are entering politics which is considered “dirty” by many here, but politics is part of the Many Causes, and I don’t think we should alienate people for political reasons. The current LW is politically neutral, and allows “socialists” to discuss without much friction with “libertarians”, which is part of its merits, and we should keep that.
Took the survey.
And yeah you should warn about the material needed for the digit ratio question in advance, so people don’t start the survey if they aren’t in the right conditions for it.