Web developer at the Centre for Effective Altruism primarily focusing on the EA forum. I previously worked in chess programming, and before that as a musician and music teacher. Aside from EA, my interests include Rachmaninoff, Star Trek and the Evans gambit.
Ollie Etherington
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Forum update: 10 new features (Oct 2023)
The fix for this is now live—thanks!
This fix is now live on the forum
We actually deployed a whole new search backend last week, and it looks like you found the first bug.
I’ve created a pull request on Github that should fix the quotation marks not working, and you can expect that to be live on the site in 1-2 days. In the mean time, your best bet is probably the Google search with
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that Neel mentioned.Thanks for letting us know!
Design changes & the community section (Forum update March 2023)
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This (and your other comment about tables in posts) should now be fixed—thanks for letting us know!
FLutter seems interesting, but I think it’s potential will always be limited as long as it’s tied so closely to Dart. Also, given Google’s track record of killing products/platforms with very little warning, I don’t think I’d be too comfortable building an entire business in a Google framework that’s tied to a Google programming language unless the community around it was big enough to take on maintenance if/when it gets killed, which I don’t think is the case here.
+1 for Expo though—it makes life super easy. There’s also the simple alternative of just making a responsive website and writing tiny native apps for each platform that just wrap the site in a webview.
Thanks for the suggestion—I’ve made a note of it!
Great suggestion! I’ve added it to our list of features to consider.
Thanks for the suggestion—I’ve made a note of it!
Thanks for the suggestions! I’ve made a note of all of them!
Thanks for your suggestion! We’re already considering adding the ability to create anonymous posts, but the idea of a unique id to track them is interesting—I’ll make a note of it.
Not a bug—it’s from Where are you donating this year, and why? which is grandfathered into an old experimental voting system (and it’s the only post with this voting system—there are a couple of others with different experimental systems).