I’m in favour of having recurring threads making up 5-20% of the site’s content. I think that the most uncontroversially useful are open threads and meetup announcements. Of the rest, the repository of mistakes seems to me like it would be really good, and could have a different character on this site compared to LessWrong. I think a ‘what I’m working on’ or ‘bragging’ thread might work well, as could a ‘career advice’ thread but I’m less certain about these. I’m unconvinced about the useful concepts repository, the useful questions repository and the bad concepts repository, where it seems like we can more easily just use the threads on LessWrong.
On the meta-level, thanks for making this post. It’s good to see users are invested in finding ways to deliver useful content for the forum software that currently exists. Content improvements often require more creativity than feature requests, can be implemented sooner and their implementation often has an impact that is more clearly positive. Props to you, Evan!
I’m in favour of having recurring threads making up 5-20% of the site’s content. I think that the most uncontroversially useful are open threads and meetup announcements. Of the rest, the repository of mistakes seems to me like it would be really good, and could have a different character on this site compared to LessWrong. I think a ‘what I’m working on’ or ‘bragging’ thread might work well, as could a ‘career advice’ thread but I’m less certain about these. I’m unconvinced about the useful concepts repository, the useful questions repository and the bad concepts repository, where it seems like we can more easily just use the threads on LessWrong.
On the meta-level, thanks for making this post. It’s good to see users are invested in finding ways to deliver useful content for the forum software that currently exists. Content improvements often require more creativity than feature requests, can be implemented sooner and their implementation often has an impact that is more clearly positive. Props to you, Evan!
Thanks.