Open Thread, Apr. 06 - Apr. 12, 2015

philh

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I understand. That's bound to happen anytime people request major features; coming up with cool new ideas is one thing, implementing them is quite another.

However, it's among the most popular feature requests I've noticed so far. Having themed subreddits would improve functionality for many users, and I'm not even talking about the specific suggestion in cleonid's comment. How many hours/days of coding or testing are we talking about?

(BTW, new account?)

I don't think lesswrong has enough volume for it actually... it would spread out the discussion too much.

12Viliam11y

I tried it once. In theory, it should have been super easy. In practice, after a few days of trying to make the damned software run on my computer, I gave up. Of course if I can't make it run, I cannot test any changes I make. I think the code is freely available, so if you feel heroic, try it at home. Or use the Reddit code, which is almost the same thing. I believe it would be easier to rewrite the whole thing from scratch. Give me a year's salary, and I would be happy to rewrite the whole thing in Java, and then to maintain in. Any other way just seems more difficult. :( [...] Yep, I realized I write too much about my work. I do not suspect my colleagues to read LW, but they could still put my name on google and find something work-related in top results. So I am slightly reducing the risk in the future.

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