I expect this to be hard to get right, but I think it would in fact remove a major bottleneck to returning to a post. Claim: the hard part is getting people to set their bookmarks. Maybe we could do something automatic?
That’s what I mean by something automatic. I’m not sure without trying it whether it’d be a terrible and disorienting experience that was wrong most of the time, or whether it’d be successfully useful.
Not sure about the claim but possible! I certainly wouldn’t say no to something automatic. But I think if setting it yourself is easy enough, it would still get a bunch of the value! I think if the feature was implemented in a similar way to in-line commenting on LessWrong, where you just hover over the correct line and it offers you a bookmark-button that you just need to click, that would be low-friction enough for people like me to use it. (I think anything that’s two-click might be too much friction)
I expect this to be hard to get right, but I think it would in fact remove a major bottleneck to returning to a post. Claim: the hard part is getting people to set their bookmarks. Maybe we could do something automatic?
Would it be possible to track how far down the page someone had scrolled, and by default return them to that place the next time they visited?
That’s what I mean by something automatic. I’m not sure without trying it whether it’d be a terrible and disorienting experience that was wrong most of the time, or whether it’d be successfully useful.
Not sure about the claim but possible! I certainly wouldn’t say no to something automatic. But I think if setting it yourself is easy enough, it would still get a bunch of the value! I think if the feature was implemented in a similar way to in-line commenting on LessWrong, where you just hover over the correct line and it offers you a bookmark-button that you just need to click, that would be low-friction enough for people like me to use it. (I think anything that’s two-click might be too much friction)