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:
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