About
forum.nunosempere.com is a frontend for the Effective Altruism Forum. It aims to present EA Forum posts in a way which I personally find soothing. It achieves that that goal at the cost of restricted functionality—like not being able to make or upvote comments and posts.
Usage
Frontpage
This forum frontend has a frontpage at forum.nunosempere.com/frontpage. It displays the latest posts in chronological order, and looks like this:
Recent comments
This forum frontend has a page showing the latest comments at forum.nunosempere.com/comments. It displays the latest comments in chronological order, together with their optional parent comment, and looks like this:
Posts
Like the EA forum, this frontend has an endpoint for posts at:
https://forum.nunosempere.com/posts/[post id]/[optional post slug]An example post—chosen to be a link post so that you can see both the article and the comments—looks like this:
RSS feed
This frontend has an rss endpoint at forum.nunosempere.com/feed: it piggybacks off the ea.greaterwrong.com RSS feed, fetching and reprocessing it every five mins.
Further notes
Clicking on an article’s or on a comment’s timestamp directs to their location on the original EA Forum. This is useful, for example, to go to the original forum to leave a comment.
My usecase is just being subscribed via rss (using newsboat), and displaying forum posts which interest me in this new frontend.
Other EA Forum alternatives known to me are ea.greaterwrong.com and eaforum.issarice.com.
This frontend takes around half a second to load. The regular EA Forum takes around 5 seconds.
Love this idea! One small suggestion, HCI research suggests that ~70 characters per line is the optimal width for text [1]. Of course, you might also have a subjective aesthetic preference for long lines of text or a dislike of whitespace so feel free to ignore this :)
[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234578707_Optimal_Line_Length_in_Reading—A_Literature_Review
Cool link. I do like the thing as it is, but you can tweak pages’ css with something like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/styl-us/ on firefox (or something else in Chrome). If you do get something working, I’m happy to link to it.
I wanted something like that—I feel like I’m subconsciously more willing to read posts in that front end. Thanks for sharing it.
Thanks!