Swimmer963 comments on The peril of ignoring emotions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Swimmer963 03 April 2011 05:23:17PM 0 points [-]

Umm is there any particular reason why I can't get the Markdown link format to work?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 03 April 2011 06:24:13PM *  0 points [-]

You also have double newlines everywhere and a lot of newlines at the end of the post.

Comment author: Swimmer963 03 April 2011 06:35:38PM 0 points [-]

I did not create those! Will have a go at fixing them though.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 03 April 2011 05:50:44PM 0 points [-]

It would be helpful to see your non-working attempted post.

However, here are mistakes I've made-- leaving a space between the ] and the ( and accidentally typing a curly bracket instead of a square bracket.

Comment author: Swimmer963 03 April 2011 05:53:54PM 0 points [-]

Thanks but I fixed it... Markdown doesn't work in the story editor, you have to use HTML, and I know next to nothing about HTML but internet tutorials are awesome.

Comment author: David_Gerard 03 April 2011 05:26:07PM *  0 points [-]

Because it doesn't work in the story editor at all %-D Click on "HTML" and use plain HTML.

Comment author: Swimmer963 03 April 2011 05:36:24PM 1 point [-]

Thanks I'll have a go.

Comment author: Swimmer963 03 April 2011 05:42:21PM 0 points [-]

It ate my links!

Comment author: David_Gerard 03 April 2011 08:29:01PM *  3 points [-]

... >_<

It needs a notice: "THIS EDITOR DOES NOT USE MARKDOWN." Or, better, it needs to have a markdown mode.

Comment author: atucker 03 April 2011 10:20:25PM *  1 point [-]

Yes!

I'd love it if the editor also used markdown.

Comment author: Swimmer963 03 April 2011 10:27:40PM 2 points [-]

Considering I had to teach myself markdown AND HTML to post on this site, I don't really care what they use, but it would be nice if they stuck to one.

Comment author: David_Gerard 03 April 2011 10:46:07PM -1 points [-]

I suspect this is in the class of problems that require someone annoyed by it to sit down and code the fix.

Comment author: handoflixue 04 April 2011 11:25:00PM 1 point [-]

Odd question, but how would one go about getting access to the source of LessWrong, and/or submitting proposed changes? I've seen a few feature request, and I'd expect it's probably within my skill range, or reasonably learnable.

Comment author: wedrifid 05 April 2011 03:21:56AM *  1 point [-]

how would one go about getting access to the source of LessWrong,

I just followed my general protocol for such matters. I googled 'lesswrong source code' and saw it as a publicly accessible project on github. If you fork the repository and commit changes I believe you can issue a 'pull request'.

I would also suggest creating a thread in the discussion section describing your newly implemented feature so that people can express their enthusiasm. If people particularly approve I expect it would be easier to get someone to take a look at your implementation.

Comment author: kpreid 05 April 2011 02:13:13AM 1 point [-]

See the last paragraph of About Less Wrong.

Comment author: Sniffnoy 04 April 2011 05:47:58AM 0 points [-]

Note that you don't need to directly edit the HTML if all you want to do is add a link; there's a perfectly good link button for that.

Comment author: David_Gerard 04 April 2011 07:15:20AM *  -1 points [-]

No, you don't have to :-) I just find the "WYSIWYG" editor even more faff than the HTML editor. YMMV.