PhilGoetz 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: PhilGoetz 16 March 2009 04:42:46PM *  2 points [-]

Okay - It's impossible to FIND this thread unless someone else has posted to it recently, or you have a link saved to it somewhere. There's no way to find old threads once they fall off the "New" page.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 16 March 2009 04:48:00PM 7 points [-]

Which reminds of one possible new feature: on forums, the whole thread is usually brought to the top when someone adds a comment. I think it'd be an improvement if, say, instead of the useless "Controversial" list, we'd have a list of articles sorted by the time of last comment.

Comment author: Vladimir_Golovin 16 March 2009 04:59:45PM *  2 points [-]

A thousand times yes. This will keep the discussion in the older threads alive. I was going to suggest this myself. It would be even better if there was a way to quickly find out where in the thread the discussion is going on at the moment, and which comments are new.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 16 March 2009 05:13:16PM 2 points [-]

One possible solution is to use flat view, like in the Comments stream, but localized to an article, with the links to a threaded view, linked to from the list of articles. Also, this list of articles should probably show title only, without summary parts of the text.

Comment author: thomblake 16 March 2009 05:02:37PM 2 points [-]

There's a link on the bottom of every page that says "Report Issues" that leads to this thread.

Comment author: MichaelHoward 16 March 2009 09:59:48PM 1 point [-]

Clicking on the title 'Recent Posts:' in the right-hand tab takes you to a full list of them.