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Comment author: JoshuaFox 14 August 2013 01:08:28PM *  21 points [-]
  • Subtopics, so that FAI, personal efficency, and effective altruism, for example, could be tracked separately by people who are interested in each.
  • Different functionality for different types of posts: meetup planning, casual discussion, quotes repositories, welcome threads, advice repositories, etc. You might also add a method for adding and voting on excellent articles from outside LW. As-is, all functions are handled by the same post/nested-thread format, which is not necessarily the best suited for each one.
  • Better layout design. It's best to get a design expert on this, but my sense is that the front page, and also other pages, are not laid out in a clear and appealing way.
  • Social-networking integration. People use Facebook, blogs, etc. to connect nowadays, so make it easy for LW members to do this. E.g., users could optionally add links to FB and other social networks in their profiles, and you could make it easy to share/like/+1 a post.
  • Rework the Discussion/Main distinction. As-is, this is very unclear. Best as I can tell, those who are supposed to post to Main know it, and everyone else is supposed to post to Discussion, after which the mysterious Lords of LessWrong promote a few posts. Is that how it is? In any case, a better way can be found.
Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 14 August 2013 02:47:06PM 8 points [-]

These suggestions make me wonder whether the next version of LessWrong should run on Discourse.

Comment author: [deleted] 14 August 2013 02:49:37PM 1 point [-]

It certainly would save on development time.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 14 August 2013 02:52:40PM 2 points [-]

Assuming that it won't need extensive to reworking to bring LW's existing features over, at least.

Comment author: [deleted] 14 August 2013 02:55:47PM 1 point [-]

True.

Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 14 August 2013 02:11:52PM 5 points [-]

Social-networking integration. People use Facebook, blogs, etc. to connect nowadays, so make it easy for LW members to do this. E.g., users could optionally add links to FB and other social networks, and you could make it easy to share/like/+1 a post.

One FB features that would absolutely rock on LW is the ability to tag users in posts. If you think some discussion is good for MrsX, and/or you want ver opinion, it should be easy to tag another users.

Comment author: [deleted] 14 August 2013 01:11:50PM 1 point [-]

Upvoted for many sensible suggestions.

Comment author: Fhyve 17 August 2013 07:43:20AM 0 points [-]

+1 because of the first point. Right now we are using this catch-all Reddit style "discussion" forum to encompass absolutely everything and it is a mess.

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