Louie comments on Official Less Wrong Redesign: Call for Suggestions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Louie 20 April 2011 05:57:09PM *  56 points [-]

Address the “meet-up announcement overload” problem on the promoted feed.

See:

Comment author: hwc 21 April 2011 12:31:36AM *  18 points [-]

Here's another proposal for dealing with meetups: some sort of prominent widget that will show (only upcoming) meetups in chronological order, with links:

Upcoming Meetups

Comment author: hwc 21 April 2011 12:40:14AM 3 points [-]

And what happens when we have a regular weekly or monthly meetup in every English-speaking city of more than two million? I've noticed that the regular meetups (LW/NYC, LW/Bay Area, LW/London, et cetera) don't bother to announce every meeting. New users have to know to look at the wiki page.

Maybe this proposed widget should include these regular meetups (with links to the relevant wiki page) for all events within the next three weeks.

Comment author: Cayenne 21 April 2011 03:42:39AM *  3 points [-]

Do geolocation or enter a postal code, and see only the ones nearby?

Edit - please disregard this post

Comment author: hwc 21 April 2011 02:16:17PM 8 points [-]

I don't trust geolocation.

Also, there's an advantage in a new user seeing all the meetups, since it accurately tells them how active we are.

And what about people who travel a lot and might check out a meetup in another city if they were reminded about it?

Comment author: matt 22 April 2011 02:19:04AM 1 point [-]

Geolocation usually works. The cost of a miss is low.

If the user had defined their location in their user profile, we'd use that instead.

Comment author: jimrandomh 21 April 2011 02:04:21PM 1 point [-]

This would be better if it also used geocoding based on IP address to filter so it shows only nearby groups by default.

Comment author: hwc 21 April 2011 01:42:43PM *  0 points [-]

The most straightforward way to have this would be to have a new database table with the following fields: date, location, and hyperlink. A set of trusted users (including one or two from each regular group) could add, edit, or delete records. Periodically, records with dates more one day in the past will be automatically purged.

There's no need to automate this, since maintaining it takes a small amount of effort relative to the effort of organizing the meetup.

Comment author: Spurlock 20 April 2011 10:49:47PM *  5 points [-]

I also posted about this a while ago. My recommendation is that there be a user preference menu shown when signing up (and editable later):

-=Menu=-

[ ] Show all upcoming meetups

[ ] Show only meetups in my area (reveals form for inputting area)

[ ] Don't show upcoming meetups

Comment author: mutterc 24 April 2011 01:43:38PM 1 point [-]

I'd be willing to code up a meetup-calendar site, though:

  • it'd take me a long time to get done
  • I'd need the ability to authenticate LW accounts (could have separate ones, but that's annoying for users)
  • What are the odds I could make something nontrivially integratable into LW's hosting?
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