Edit from 2022: Consider checking the Forum user manual if you're not sure if something you're looking for might already be possible.
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Edit April 2022: This thread is still very live as you can see by the continual influx of suggestions. We have now synced our asana project with our public Github issues list, so you can see our recorded tasks there.[1] I'd still recommend suggesting features here so that other users can see and discuss them. — JP
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Note: there's a delay between when we write tasks down and when they get triaged into a state that gets synced with Github.
I think it would make sense to exclude emoji from the audio narrations, especially now that a lot of users are adding diamond emoji to their usernames. The audio software currently reads aloud the emoji even if it is in a username, e.g. "Eevee orange diamond emoji".
Something which has come up a few times, and recently a lot in the context of Debate Week (and the reaction to Leif's post) is things getting downvoted quickly and being removed from the Front Page, which drastically drops the likelihood of engagement.[1]
So a potential suggestion for the Frontpage might be:
- Hide the vote score of all new posts if the absolute score of the post is below some threshold (I'll use 20 as an example)
- If a post hits -20, it drops off the front page
- After a post hits 20+, it's karma score is permanently revealed
- Galaxy-brain version is that Community/Non-Community grouping should only take effect once a post hits these thresholds[2]
- This will still probably leave us with too many new posts to fit on the front page, so some rules to sort which stay and which get knocked off:
- Some consideration to total karma should probably count (how much to weight it is debatable)
- Some consideration to how recent the post is should count too (e.g. I'd probably want to see a new post that got 20+ karma quickly than 100+ karma over weeks)
- Some consideration should also go to engagement - some metric related to either number of votes or comment count would probably indicate which po
... (read more)As a group organizer, I want to know how many people are following our city group on the forum and find out when a new person starts following it. E.g., how many people are following our city group on the forum now compared to before a recent EAGx event?
As a group organizer, it might be nice to be able to DM people who follow our local group, though this may have privacy implications I have not thought through.
I think the EA Forum software does a poor job at communicating the license terms of forum posts. (For context, all new forum content published on or after 1 December 2022 has been licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.)
The current license statement is buried in the forum terms of use which can be reached from the "How to use the Forum" page in the navigation sidebar, so many readers may be unaware of the license terms if they have not registered on the forum and clicked through the license agreement. By contrast, many sites that use CC licenses, ... (read more)
Hi JP,
Nice that user interests are now visible on the profile page. I think it would be good if they were sorted alphabetically.
I would like to suggest a rule/norm that people or orgs should not post the same article they are ready posted multiple times over the course of a few months, especially if there was already discussion in the comments the first time, unless they have significantly new points to make.
Hi JP,
It would be nice to have the possibility of filtering the posts of a user by a given tag. As of now, it is not possible.
Hi JP,
I think it would be nice to have the possibility of filtering content by user. As of now it is not possible.
My use case was trying to find something I said.
Hi JP,
I imported this Doc to the EA Forum editor, and noted the 2nd to 4th bullets of the section "Cost-effectiveness of the Climate Change Fund" were not imported.