Short-medium term: some minor UI changes, to bring branding more into line with the rest of effectivealtruism.org
Longer term ideas (caveat — these are just at the thought bubble stage at the moment and it’s not clear whether they’d be valuable changes):
I think there’s appetite for a discussion space that’s both content aggregation as well as original content. This might take the form of getting a more active subreddit (for example) happening, but plausibly this could be something specifically built-for-purpose that either integrates with or complements the existing forum.
We’ve thought about integrating logins between the webapp on EffectiveAltruism.org (what is currently just EA Funds) and the forum to avoid the need to manage multiple accounts when doing various EA things online
We’ve also thought a bit about integrating commenting systems so that discussion that happens on various EA blogs is mirrored on the forum (to avoid splitting discussions when cross-posting).
If there are things that you think would be useful (especially if you’ve been able to give this more thought than I have) that’d be great to know, with the caveat that we’re pretty restricted by developer time on this, and the priority is ensuring ongoing maintenance of the existing infrastructure, rather than building out new features.
We’ve also thought a bit about integrating commenting systems so that discussion that happens on various EA blogs is mirrored on the forum (to avoid splitting discussions when cross-posting).
I’ve thought a bunch about this; let me know if you want to talk.
I presume CEA tech staff will make the branding changes, but is the plan for them also to make the longer term changes, or would that continue to be the .impact community? I don’t understand what roles CEA has taken on as of this announcement and what role .impact continues to have? It sounds from the first paragraph like .impact has decided to transition primary responsibility for forum maintenance and improvements to CEA, but the third last paragraph suggest otherwise—could someone from that community comment?
Can you speak to any plans on the horizon other than changing the domain name, even if long term?
Short-medium term: some minor UI changes, to bring branding more into line with the rest of effectivealtruism.org
Longer term ideas (caveat — these are just at the thought bubble stage at the moment and it’s not clear whether they’d be valuable changes):
I think there’s appetite for a discussion space that’s both content aggregation as well as original content. This might take the form of getting a more active subreddit (for example) happening, but plausibly this could be something specifically built-for-purpose that either integrates with or complements the existing forum.
We’ve thought about integrating logins between the webapp on EffectiveAltruism.org (what is currently just EA Funds) and the forum to avoid the need to manage multiple accounts when doing various EA things online
We’ve also thought a bit about integrating commenting systems so that discussion that happens on various EA blogs is mirrored on the forum (to avoid splitting discussions when cross-posting).
If there are things that you think would be useful (especially if you’ve been able to give this more thought than I have) that’d be great to know, with the caveat that we’re pretty restricted by developer time on this, and the priority is ensuring ongoing maintenance of the existing infrastructure, rather than building out new features.
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I’ve thought a bunch about this; let me know if you want to talk.
I presume CEA tech staff will make the branding changes, but is the plan for them also to make the longer term changes, or would that continue to be the .impact community? I don’t understand what roles CEA has taken on as of this announcement and what role .impact continues to have? It sounds from the first paragraph like .impact has decided to transition primary responsibility for forum maintenance and improvements to CEA, but the third last paragraph suggest otherwise—could someone from that community comment?