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Comment author: Elo 01 September 2015 01:50:50AM *  4 points [-]

When I click main it defaults to "promoted", you linked in this comment to main/all which caught the post. I wonder if anyone else has the problem of missing posts like this. There is no way I could have found this post if I didn't try really hard to work out where it was. After 10 mins I decided to screenshot and ask someone..

Is there something that can be done about these posts being lost/not-easy to find?

My usual process is:

  1. www.lesswrong.com
  2. -discusssion
  3. (sometimes click >main)
  4. sometimes autocomplete to http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/new/

I can easily change what I do to also check Main/notpromotedbutnormalmainposts. But I wonder if anyone else misses things and can be helped like this?

Comment author: ike 01 September 2015 02:21:25AM 4 points [-]
Comment author: tim 01 September 2015 03:11:53AM 2 points [-]

Is this a link that is supposed to be readily accessible? A quick search through the source of this page doesn't turn up any hits for "all/new" outside your post here and it's corresponding entry in the recent comments section.

Maybe this obvious to regular users of reddit, but I had no idea you could filter lists of posts with the /r/ syntax.

Comment author: ike 01 September 2015 03:40:21AM 1 point [-]
Comment author: tim 01 September 2015 03:50:08AM 1 point [-]

So, no?

Comment author: ike 01 September 2015 03:51:48AM 1 point [-]

The FAQ links to that page. So presumably it's not terribly unsupported.

Comment author: tim 01 September 2015 04:00:57AM *  2 points [-]

I guess...

But I would never think to navigate to the FAQ of a site and scroll through several hundred lines of completely unrelated text to find an instance of the link which allows me to then view a comprehensive collection of new content from said site.

Comment author: Elo 01 September 2015 04:30:29AM *  1 point [-]

Thank you!

Shows that I am not the only village idiot here!

Who do I contact to go about fixing this thing?

Comment author: ike 01 September 2015 10:27:00AM 1 point [-]

I suppose you can open an issue at https://github.com/tricycle/lesswrong-migrated

Comment author: Elo 05 September 2015 09:41:54AM 1 point [-]

done, there are a lot of issues listed there but https://github.com/tricycle/lesswrong-migrated/issues/442