Apart from LW, what are some other forums you take inspiration from? Curious about features you implemented inspired by those forums (or you still want to implement), culture, etc
What makes you think we take inspiration from LessWrong? 😛
The biggest influence is Reddit. Did you know that we once were a fork of reddit? The basic primitives of posts that get comments and karma are taken from reddit via that history. We still look over their work for inspiration sometimes.
I have also looked at Medium, Substack, Quora and Facebook (for Events).
Just to add a few: when I think about Forum features/structure/culture, I often think of other sites that have similar-ish functions that I’ve appreciated and/or used, including:
Cool to see that AMA, big fan of that team!
Apart from LW, what are some other forums you take inspiration from? Curious about features you implemented inspired by those forums (or you still want to implement), culture, etc
What makes you think we take inspiration from LessWrong? 😛
The biggest influence is Reddit. Did you know that we once were a fork of reddit? The basic primitives of posts that get comments and karma are taken from reddit via that history. We still look over their work for inspiration sometimes.
I have also looked at Medium, Substack, Quora and Facebook (for Events).
Just to add a few: when I think about Forum features/structure/culture, I often think of other sites that have similar-ish functions that I’ve appreciated and/or used, including:
Stack Exchange (my main experience is with Math Stack Exchange)
Quanta Magazine
Assorted blogs
For the wiki: Wikipedia (and other wikis, including stuff like TV tropes), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
We also sometimes think about e.g. Twitter
[Edited to add — happened to remember] Also Hacker News