I think it would be very helpful if the forum was made easier to navigate by creating categories/sub-fora, making tags more intuitively accessible, or some other method. E.g., how do I find the most-upvoted forum posts and comments about EA investing?
I think sub-fora is a somewhat contentious issue, the counter-argument being that it’s good to have the Forum be a clearing-house of EA ideas without too much splintering.
I agree the tag interface could be more discoverable. If you go to https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/tags/all you can see a list of all tags and how many posts each one has, but there doesn’t seem to be much functionality beyond a featureless alphabetical list (e.g. it would be cool to allow them to be sorted by number of posts, and for the tags page to be discoverable from the homepage).
Categories / sub-fora / better overview of tags
I think it would be very helpful if the forum was made easier to navigate by creating categories/sub-fora, making tags more intuitively accessible, or some other method. E.g., how do I find the most-upvoted forum posts and comments about EA investing?
I think sub-fora is a somewhat contentious issue, the counter-argument being that it’s good to have the Forum be a clearing-house of EA ideas without too much splintering.
I agree the tag interface could be more discoverable. If you go to https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/tags/all you can see a list of all tags and how many posts each one has, but there doesn’t seem to be much functionality beyond a featureless alphabetical list (e.g. it would be cool to allow them to be sorted by number of posts, and for the tags page to be discoverable from the homepage).
Once you get to a specific tag, though, it seems to already have the functionality you’re looking for, including different sort orders: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/tag/investing
Thanks, I wasn’t aware of this!