matt comments on What if the front page… - Less Wrong

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Comment author: matt 16 March 2012 12:15:52AM *  2 points [-]

A/B testing is something I'd love to do… but I don't have the time to do more than support someone else managing the project.

Stuff I can make happen:

  • support for multiple wiki pages mounted at lesswrong.com urls
  • support for the front page to run js that will select which variant page to display

Stuff someone else (with high site karma or vouched for by someone with high site karma) would have to commit to do:

  • generate page variants
  • decide on the goal condition we're optimising for
  • manage the ongoing test (requirements determined by the A/B framework we use)
  • anything else I didn't think of - you'd be the project manager.

(Without having reviewed Genetify I'd prefer to use Google's free A/B testing system, but would be happy to convinced to follow the project manager's decision.)