Vaniver comments on How habits work and how you may control them - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 15 October 2013 07:38:07PM 15 points [-]

My personal solution is to treat the URL of http://lesswrong.com/r/all/recentposts as my Less Wrong home page, since it appears to load all articles from Main and Discussion equally for convenient viewing in newest to oldest order without kruft. I can't claim original credit for this url (which doesn't appear to be prominently linked anywhere that I see), since I'm fairly sure someone else showed this feature to me, but it has been long enough ago that I don't remember who.

If I were to be charitable, I could say the front page appears oriented to people who aren't familiar with the site or the concepts behind it at all, and need an introduction.

But I agree that to someone that tries to read the site frequently, the front page is pretty terrible.

Comment author: Vaniver 15 October 2013 08:50:04PM 9 points [-]

My personal solution is to treat the URL of http://lesswrong.com/r/all/recentposts as my Less Wrong home page, since it appears to load all articles from Main and Discussion equally for convenient viewing in newest to oldest order without kruft.

I also use this; it would be nice if it were prominently advertised. I also learned about it from a comment a long time ago.

If I were to be charitable, I could say the front page appears oriented to people who aren't familiar with the site or the concepts behind it at all, and need an introduction.

I do think that having an introduction page is a good idea; when people hear about "less wrong" and punch it into Google, they should get a welcome page rather than a list of title links. But if someone's already logged in, they should probably get a list of title links rather than a welcome page. It should be possible to have lesswrong.com redirect to lesswrong.com/about if the person isn't logged in, and lesswrong.com/r/all/recentposts if they are.