billswift comments on Support That Sounds Like Dissent - Less Wrong

65 Post author: jimrandomh 20 March 2009 10:28PM

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Comment author: billswift 21 March 2009 02:29:34PM 1 point [-]

There are too many different blogging/commenting systems as it is. For someone interested in finding useful or interesting content rather than in "communing", it is seriously annoying to keep track of how they work.

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Comment author: billswift 21 March 2009 02:45:03PM 2 points [-]

I don't have anything against innovation - provided it's more useful than the inconsistency it introduces. Tools, including software, are used for other ends, they are not ends in themselves except for a few people who specialize in them, or are otherwise particularly interested in them. As I put it earlier, I am interested in finding interesting or useful content, not in learning to manage a dozen different software systems.

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Comment author: billswift 21 March 2009 10:05:11PM 1 point [-]

Standardize somewhat on the blogging/commenting systems. Reducing the number of different systems will lessen the complexity a lot more than adding features to one or another would increase it. Reduce the number of systems by making it easier for current sites to transfer to another system. Reduce forking of projects by making it easy to patch systems to a consistent standard.