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[Last updated: May 28, 2025]
The EA Forum is run by the Online Team at the Centre for Effective Altruism. Currently this includes:
- EA FoĀrum feaĀture sugĀgesĀtion thread by (16 Jun 2020 16:58 UTC; 61 points)
- EA FoĀrum upĀdate (June 2025) by (2 Jun 2025 19:28 UTC; 56 points)
- FoĀrum upĀdate: User database, card view, and more (Jul 2024) by (24 Jul 2024 21:03 UTC; 53 points)
- InĀtroĀducĀing Dialogues + DonaĀtion DeĀbate Week by (21 Nov 2023 15:18 UTC; 47 points)
- EA FoĀrum upĀdate (Oct 2024) by (24 Oct 2024 13:03 UTC; 46 points)
- 's comment on 10 PerĀcent Pledge by (14 Jul 2024 14:02 UTC; 3 points)
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Quick thoughts on the AI summaries:
1. Does the EA Forum support <details> /ā <summary> blocks, for hidden content? If so, I think that should heavily be used in these summaries.
2. If (1) is done, then Iād like sections like:
- related materials
- key potential counter-claims
- basic evaluations, using some table.
Then, it would be neat if the full prompt for this was online, and maybe if there could be discussion about it.
Of course, even better would be systems where these summaries could be individualized or something, but that would be more expensive.
Good ideas, thank you!
Iām on desktop, with ad-blocker off, and āhide Intercomā unchecked in the options, and still canāt see Intercom. I even tried different browsers.
Thanks for flagging this. This usually happens when functional cookies are disabled. You can reenable them by heading to our cookie settings page and clicking the link in the second paragraph. That should open a small window where you can turn them back on. Let us know if that doesnāt solve it!
Iām subscribed to the āOrganizations updateā tab, so I get notifications when a new post in that category appears, but I canāt unsubscribe. This has been a mild annoyance for a few years. Clicking subscribe and unsubscribe on the page doesnāt do anything. Could someone fix it?
Can this be updated. This is the default āContact usā page (if I click the sidebar on the right and click ācontact usā it brings me here). But this page seems very out of date. Could be worth updating it.
There is no intercom bubble on the right nor is there a āhide intercomā button on the edit profile page. There is a hide intercom button on the account settings page but it does not do anything. There are also a bunch of comments saying similar stuff below but they have not been replied too.
Iāve updated it. One oversight of the page was that it didnāt mention that intercom was desktop-only. If youāre one desktop and you donāt see it, can you try the new debugging steps? But also feel free to email us.
Hi, Debugging worked. It was a Chrome extension I had installed to hide cookie messages what was killing it. Thank you so much!!
Hi, can you please tell people to stop posting inane, distracting and visually disturbing gifs in the comments? Like in a comment on Gideonās article on complexity and x-risks. Thanks.
I am trying to comment on Vascoās critical post about Veganuary but it has been deleted as spam twice. I am from Veganuary and we surely have a right to reply to this post. I do not have the icon you said I can use to message you.
Toni Vernelli
Thanks for your patience! Your comment was mistakenly flagged as spam, but weāve restored it, and it should be live on the forum.
Iād like to include an illustration in a postāhow do I do that. A jpg that I copied and pasted into the text didnāt work.
Hello, I want to start an EA chapter at City University London. Please let me know how to go about it.
How about a tag for environmental problems? Now itās only climate change. https://āāen.wikipedia.org/āāwiki/āāPlanetary_boundaries
For one, I donāt see any intercom. (Iām on an iPhone).
For two, I wanted to report a bug that whenever writing a comment, the UI zooms in so that the comment box takes up the whole width. Then it never un-zooms.
Another bug, while writing a comment while zoomed in and scrolling left to right, the scroll bar appears in the middle of the text.
A third bug, when I get a notification that somebody has responded to my post, and view it using the drop down at the upper right, then try to re-use that menu, the X button is hidden, off the screen to the right. Seems like a similar mobile over-zoom thing.
Do you have a preference on whether to contact you or contact JP Addison (the programmer of the EA Forum) for technical bugs?
Please contact me for those, and Iāll forward them to JP as appropriate. Thanks!
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Reporting via Intercom or email is fineāwhateverās easiest for you!