For what it's worth, the thing that got me visiting here regularly was the list of EY's OB posts.

I know y'all love the sequences as such, and I can understand why, but the fact remains that I was motivated to work my way through much of that material relatively systematically in a chronological format, but once I got to the end of that list -- that is, the time of the OB-to-LW migration -- I bogged down (1). The sequence/wiki style is less compelling to me than the chronological style, especially given the degree to which the posts themselves really are blog posts and not articles.

I suspect that having some sense of where the process terminates is a key aspect of that. If I don't know how long the process is going to be, it's harder to get up the energy to work through it.

Anyway, to the extent that appealing to people like me is a valuable subgoal(2), it seems what you should do is assemble a simple chronological list of LW posts from the dawn of the site that are most representative of what you'd like the site content to look like. (3)

== (1) To be fair, that was also the start of the Fun Theory sequence, which I am finding less compelling than some of its predecessors, so the content may bear some of the responsibility for my bogged-down-ness... but not all of it, nor even (I think) most of it.

(2) Which isn't intended as false modesty; I just mean there's no particular reason to believe that what appeals to me will appeal to anyone else.

(3) It may be sufficient to take the highest-voted tier of posts for each month, say, and string them together chronologically... though you'd probably want to backfill other posts that they depend on.