HughRistik comments on Self-Improvement or Shiny Distraction: Why Less Wrong is anti-Instrumental Rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: HughRistik 14 September 2010 09:05:36PM 10 points [-]

AND WHICH CAN HANDLE ANY THREADS IN A SANE WAY

Fixed.

My only feasible solution to follow rapidly developing discussions is still to read the recent comments, rather than the thread (due to all the thread and which bleeds onto continued pages)... basically a full table scan of LessWrong. The flat view of comments is better for avoiding missing something, even with comments on other posts thrown in.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 15 September 2010 02:03:00AM 11 points [-]

It would be nice to have a recent comments link for specific threads.

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 15 September 2010 09:41:36AM 2 points [-]

Upvoted for agreement. Even better, add subscription flags to threads, and provide a recent comments view that shows only the subscribed threads.

Poking around at the source tree, this seems to be the current CMS template for the global recent comments page. As far as I can tell, the query for listing the comments is here.

A quick hack solution would be to add a second comment query where comments from posts one isn't interested in are filtered out of the all comments query before the list is returned.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 15 September 2010 10:33:30AM 0 points [-]

I've been suggesting developing trn capabilities for a while, but that would be a big job. Adding the most valuable aspects as needed probably makes more sense.

Comment author: CronoDAS 15 September 2010 02:47:56AM 0 points [-]

Yes it would.