Changes made in LessWrong will appear on the Forum in ~2 weeks on average, unless the part of LessWrong you changed isn’t something we have on the Forum.
We really appreciate everyone who wants to help; let me know if you have questions, and I’d be happy to direct you to the programmers who can answer them.
The README contains some useful information, e.g. about the history of the project, and contributing seems pretty straight-forward.
I do, however, miss some high-level information. For example:
Why use this instead of something like Discourse or a subreddit?
Is the project vision written somewhere, or is it “implicit knowledge?”
What major features are planned? (Projects like these is a way to get an overview of the plans.)
What websites are built using the code?
Are there any sponsors?
None of these questions are critical to have answers to in order to contribute, but they could help with motivation and figuring out whether the project is a good fit for a given contributor.
One good option: Contributing to the EA Forum!
Almost all of our code actually comes from the LessWrong codebase. LessWrong is very excited about open-source contributions; here’s their guide to helping out, and their Github tag for important issues that seem easy to fix.
Changes made in LessWrong will appear on the Forum in ~2 weeks on average, unless the part of LessWrong you changed isn’t something we have on the Forum.
We really appreciate everyone who wants to help; let me know if you have questions, and I’d be happy to direct you to the programmers who can answer them.
That’s a good suggestion. Thanks for sharing.
The
READMEcontains some useful information, e.g. about the history of the project, and contributing seems pretty straight-forward.I do, however, miss some high-level information. For example:
Why use this instead of something like Discourse or a subreddit?
Is the project vision written somewhere, or is it “implicit knowledge?”
What major features are planned? (Projects like these is a way to get an overview of the plans.)
What websites are built using the code?
Are there any sponsors?
None of these questions are critical to have answers to in order to contribute, but they could help with motivation and figuring out whether the project is a good fit for a given contributor.
Here are posts from the LessWrong developers which might answer some of these questions. From 2017, so possibly outdated at this point...
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HJDbyFFKf72F52edp/welcome-to-lesswrong-2-0
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6XZLexLJgc5ShT4in/lesswrong-2-0-feature-roadmap-and-feature-suggestions
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rEHLk9nC5TtrNoAKT/lw-2-0-strategic-overview
More recent discussions here:
https://www.lesswrong.com/meta
Thanks. That’s useful.