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Open thread, September 8-14, 2014
pshc70

Just wanted to say: thanks for the ideas!

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Open thread, September 8-14, 2014
pshc30

Turns out AlienBlue did release their original version as open source, but the code is four years out of date! Hmmm.

Yeah, I would probably end up scraping the HTML. I filed a bug about .json being broken two years ago, but even if it were fixed, it seems that LW has quite a few customizations that the JSON output likely has not caught up to...

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Open thread, September 8-14, 2014
pshc120

Imagining:

  • Easy to read layout (I find myself doing a lot of zooming and panning in Mobile Safari)
  • Download articles and sequences for offline reading
  • Comments that are easy to read, vote on, and reply to on mobile, similar to e.g. popular reddit apps
  • Free as in beer and speech

Welcoming other features that would draw users, too. I have to wonder if there are open source Reddit clients I could adapt, given the forked codebase...

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5philh
I expect that forking a reddit client is the way to go for UI (if you don't have any in mind, I think AlienBlue and Reddit is Fun are probably worth looking into for this). For the backend, reddit exposes itself through json, which LW doesn't seem to; e.g. http://www.reddit.com/user/philh/.json works, but http://lesswrong.com/user/philh/.json (and http://lesswrong.com/user/philh/overview/.json ) don't. I expect clients to mostly use this, so you'll need to rewrite those portions of the code.
Open thread, September 8-14, 2014
pshc90

Would there be any interest in an iPhone app for LessWrong? I was thinking it might be a fun side project for learning Swift, and I didn't see any search results on the App Store.

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2lmm
I would expect most LWers to prefer Android. Certainly I do.
4ChristianKl
I think a predictionbook app or an app version of the credence game, would be more useful than a app for LessWrong.
6Ixiel
I bet some folks would love you forever if you gave them reply notification
4Richard_Kennaway
What do you see it doing that the web site doesn't?
Meetup : Vancouver Big Monthly
pshc00

I'll be there! Probably can't stay more than two hours.

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Meetup : Need more people for Vancouver meetup
pshc00

Sorry for missing the latest one. By the way, are you doing any more talks at the VHS? -Paul

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0[anonymous]
Yeah, I'm planning to cook up the next episode of back door calculus soon. It will be a boundary value problem and a zombie plague modeling problem, maybe even a partial. I also want to do some linear algebra and bayesian stuff some time. I'll let everyone know.