Wei_Dai comments on Issues, Bugs, and Requested Features - Less Wrong

10 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 February 2009 04:45PM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 10 January 2010 02:48:55AM *  7 points [-]

I'd like a way to display all of a user's posts and comments on a single HTML page, so I can find things easily. I've written a PHP script to mechanically "press" the "next" button repeatedly and collate all of the pages into one, and I've found it very useful. I would make the URL public and let everyone use it, but unless I add some kind of caching, it might put a lot of stress on my my server and Less Wrong's if many people use it at the same time on some prolific contributor (e.g., Eliezer).

So my questions are:

  1. Is there much demand for this feature from others?
  2. Is there hope to have it implemented on Less Wrong directly?

If the answer to 1 is yes, but 2 is no, then I'll code the caching and make the URL public.

ETA: In case anyone wonders why I didn't submit a patch to the Less Wrong codebase, it's because I can't understand how it works. Is there some documentation for potential developers?

Comment author: Wei_Dai 11 January 2010 07:44:21PM 1 point [-]

I wrote earlier:

I'd like a way to display all of a user's posts and comments on a single HTML page, so I can find things easily. I've written a PHP script to mechanically "press" the "next" button repeatedly and collate all of the pages into one, and I've found it very useful.

There doesn't seem to be a huge demand for this (or not many people are paying attention to this thread), so if anyone wants to know the URL for this, just send me a private message, and I'll give it to you.

Comment author: Document 01 February 2011 07:10:51AM 0 points [-]

(For the record, the URL was eventually posted here.)

Comment author: Document 19 February 2010 08:40:13PM *  0 points [-]

I might use it, but probably only if it were incorporated into the site. Is it really only possible to view 5 at a time with the current script?

Edit 4/11: Changed my mind; sending PM.