No easily summarizable comment on the rest of it, but as a LessWrong dev I do think the addition of Quick Takes to the front page of LW was very good—my sense is that it’s counterfactually responsible for a pretty substantial amount of high quality discussion. (I haven’t done any checking of ground-truth metrics, this is just my gestalt impression as a user of the site.)
Agree! I am a bit worried the discussion is a bit social-drama heavy on LW, since it’s kind of the only outlet for that kind of stuff on the frontpage, but that in itself is also somewhat of a success (having a place for more community-oriented discussion without taking over the whole site).
No easily summarizable comment on the rest of it, but as a LessWrong dev I do think the addition of Quick Takes to the front page of LW was very good—my sense is that it’s counterfactually responsible for a pretty substantial amount of high quality discussion. (I haven’t done any checking of ground-truth metrics, this is just my gestalt impression as a user of the site.)
Agree! I am a bit worried the discussion is a bit social-drama heavy on LW, since it’s kind of the only outlet for that kind of stuff on the frontpage, but that in itself is also somewhat of a success (having a place for more community-oriented discussion without taking over the whole site).