nickernst comments on Recent site changes - Less Wrong

48 Post author: matt 24 June 2011 03:50AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 24 June 2011 04:59:40PM 2 points [-]

The nearby meetups feature is a great idea, but the current implementation creates a new challenge: All regular meetups are now making posts every time they have a meetup. This is more work for them, but more importantly, it's serious clutter on the discussion page.

Possible solutions: 1) Implement a calendar that can handle repeat events. 2) Add an option on the Add New Meetup tab which would allow users to either create a new post (what it does right now) or to link to another url (old post or wiki page). This would at least handle the clutter problem.

Comment author: matt 24 June 2011 05:18:41PM 3 points [-]

1 is planned but unscheduled, and the discussion area post was a quick hack to give us comment discussion for meetups - our first implementation didn't support comments on meetups at all.
… which is to say, I agree, and we plan to fix it. We figured that there are some advantages in the new system that made it worth publishing.