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Announcing WildAnimalSuffering.org, a new resource launched for the cause
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Hey David, congrats on launching this! Really well-designed site. So great to see the WAS discussion steadily spreading out of academia. It's obviously still quite fringe, but it's progressing faster than I expected. Big thanks to people like you, Humane Hancock and others who are laying the groundwork to bring the discussion into the mainstream.

I thought I'd let you know that my bank card was temporarily blocked due to "Vegan Hacktivists" sounding shady to someone at my bank's fraud department - I'm not sure if you can change this with Donorbox or your ba... (read more)

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David van Beveren
Hi Joe, Thanks so much for this amazing feedback! I see you solved the issue with Donorbox, thanks for the donation! We'll look into if our name might be causing issues, appreciate the note. I'll try to respond to all of your feedback below: * Promising directions: This sounds like a really important addition to add, agreed! Not sure if we can do a whole page (we really have to be careful to not make the site too large, there's so many pages that could be added) but we could add this in an existing page for sure.   * Vivid picture: Can't agree more. We're really trying to strike a balance of what we show, but I think what you've outlined makes a lot of sense. Appreciate the link to the videos, I'm going to bring this back to the team to see how we can accomplish this.   * Worms / insects: Interesting point. This sounds like a larger discussion to be had with the folks who researched the content and strategy, I'll bring this back to them - thanks!   * Even worse page: We fully agree! We'll ask our illustrator to update this in our next round of updates, nice catch.   * Video player: We just fixed this, let me know if you still have to click twice! This was a bug that wasn't intended to happen but was happening on Chromium based browsers.   * Other resources: Agree! We're going to make the tabs on the desktop format sticky so no matter how low you scroll, you'll notice that there's other sections. We want to avoid using the mobile format for desktop in order to keep the page a reasonable length. Hopefully this is a good middle-ground solution! We can't thank you enough for the really detailed feedback, appreciate it! I'm sending over all of these notes to the team, and if you have any more comments, feel free to message me directly!
Singapore - Small casual dinner in Chinatown #5
Joe Rocca1
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Wasn't sure if cross-posting works properly for events. Seems like this is just a normal post, so head over here to RSVP: https://www.lesswrong.com/events/vhBRSrbm4cYMzCws3/singapore-small-casual-dinner-in-chinatown-5

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Joe Rocca2
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Agreed, and I'd just add that it's better to set up a proper custom domain rather than just a redirect, since a bunch of people will inevitably copy the post-redirect URL around, even if the EA team themselves are careful to only link to the custom domain. It's a 2 minute job - just need to log into the domain management where effectivealtruism.org is registered and add a CNAME record that points internships.effectivealtruism.org   to   ea-internships.pory.app

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