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The virtual version of this event is just a zoom webinar; as far as I can tell, there is no open discussion available virtually. Attendees can propose questions to be asked by the moderator at the end of each talk. Sounds like the recordings of the presentations will be made available afterwards.
You can now subscribe to be notified when posts are added to a sequence. You can see more details in GitHub here.
We’ve also made it a bit easier to create and edit sequences, including allowing users to delete sequences they’ve made.
I’ve been thinking a bit about how to improve sequences, so I’d be curious to hear:
How you use them
What you’d like to be able to do with them
Any other thoughts/feedback
Just letting you know that you can now subscribe to be notified when posts are added to a sequence. Hope this is helpful, and let me know if you run into any issues!
You can now subscribe to be notified when posts are added to a sequence. Hope this is helpful, and let me know if you run into any issues!
Ah I see, glad to hear it! Yeah dismissing the popup in one tab doesn’t cause the others to refresh or pull the updated data.
My apologies for the inconvenience, and thanks for flagging this! Unfortunately I’m unable to reproduce the issue. Could you provide some more details, such as what browsers/devices you see this on? Does it persist when you refresh? Are you only seeing this when logged in, or have you encountered this while logged out?
Users can directly edit wiki pages once they have gotten to 10 karma by using the site. I don’t believe this list is actively maintained—you can see in the edit history that the last addition was in 2022.
We’ve updated our new user onboarding flow! You can see more details in GitHub here.
In addition to making it way prettier, we’re trying out adding some optional steps, including:
You can select topics you’re interested in, to make your frontpage more relevant to you.
You can also click the “Customize feed” button on the frontpage—see details here.
You can choose some authors to subscribe to. You will be notified when an author you are subscribed to publishes a post.
You can also subscribe from any user’s profile page.
You’re prompted to fill in some profile information to give other users context on who you are.
You can also edit your profile here.
I hope that these additional optional steps help new users get more out of the Forum. We will continue to iterate on this flow based on usage and feedback—feel free to reply to this quick take with your thoughts!
Update: We’ve removed the old version of Wrapped, but also updated the new version to work with 2022 data. You can see your 2022 data here.
One suggestion I would add is to try volunteering. I’m also introverted and went to my first EAG without knowing anyone, and I found it way easier to chat with other volunteers than random people at the conference. The people who volunteer tend to be either fellow first time attendees (including many other students) or people who are friendlier than average.
Currently we’ve left it up here but we plan to remove it soon to clean up our codebase. I’m curious why you want to see last year’s?
The credit goes to our super talented designer @agnestenlund!
Glad it was helpful! :) Unfortunately the Facebook group is the most active Boston EA space. The group website looks quite outdated, but I think you can still get notified of events via the email list, so I would recommend joining that.
A few quick things I would recommend (if you haven’t already done them):
Check out the map of community members to see if there are any people near you.
See if there are any online groups that interest you—in particular, I would check out EA Anywhere.
I’ve done both the introductory and in-depth EA Virtual Programs and I found them really helpful for me to learn and engage with EA ideas. The readings were great and I had some interesting discussions with my cohorts, plus kept in touch with some of them afterward! :)
Since you are near Boston, I suggest you join the Boston Effective Altruism Facebook group. In particular, I know people have come from other nearby states to join the “Dinner and discussion” events, and you’ll meet a pretty good mix of people there.
I’ll bet EAF put a lot of thought into their palette.
As Ollie mentioned, I made the set you referenced for just this one thread. As far as I remember it was meant to to support positive vibes in that thread and was done very quickly, so I would not say a lot of thought went into that palette.
It’s the “Saved & read” option in the profile photo dropdown menu:
“Filter by topics” lets you search for and select any number of topics, and the results will show anything that has all of the selected topics. Hope that helps!
Thanks for the feedback Linda! I believe you can accomplish this using the topic filters on our current search page, but please let me know if you run into any issues.
New: “card view” for frontpage posts
We’re testing out a new “card view” for the main post list on the home page. You can toggle the layout by clicking the dropdown circled in red below. You can see more details in GitHub here.
Let us know what you think! :)