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To my knowledge:

  • The CEA has two full-time developers (Sam Deere and JP Addison). JP has been at CEA since at least June 2018, and Sam has been there for many years.
  • The EA forum appears to be a copy of the LessWrong forum, with some minor cosmetic modifications (like having a 'community' section).
  • The two web development achievements mentioned in this post ('Built the timeframe feature into the All Posts page to enable easier post discovery', 'Ported and modified the Community Favorites section and added it to the homepage') ar
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Hi,

I'll first clarify / correct some facts, then discuss my interpretation.

  • I've been at CEA since September 2017. I have been working full time on the Forum since May. Previously, I was only trying to keep it up to date with LessWrong. As mentioned in the previous post in this series, Sam does not work directly on the Forum.
  • Correct. The developer term of art is "fork". In this case it's a fork where we push our changes upstream to LessWrong, and keep up to date with their changes.
  • When I say 'Built the timeframe feature' I
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