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I wanted something like that - I feel like I’m subconsciously more willing to read posts in that front end. Thanks for sharing it.
A Soothing Frontend for the Effective Altruism Forum
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!
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.
This forum frontend has a frontpage at forum.nunosempere.com/frontpage. It displays the latest posts in chronological order, and looks like this:
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:
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:
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.
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.