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@Toby Tremlettđš and I will be repping the EA Forum Team at EAG SF in mid-Feb â stop by our office hours to ask questions, give us your hottest Forum takes, or just say hi and come get a surprise sweet! :)
Thanks for the question Ben! The main reason that this is a priority is to help EA Funds (which is now part of CEA) grow and diversify their donations, by making it easier to gather info from donors[1]Â and build relationships with them, and giving us more freedom to optimize the UX of the donation flow. AWF in particular has ambitious 2026 plans and a significant funding gap, and weâd be excited to help them reach their donation goal for this year! :)
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GWWC, the primary platform EA Funds has used historically, defaults to opt-out for donor data sharing. As far as I understand, this prevents us from being able to contact the majority of donors. We recently added the option of donating via every.org as well, which is opt-in by default so thatâs improved the situation.
For those who are interested in what the CEA Online Team[1]Â is up to, I've set up a new OKRs doc for 2026 and summarized our Q1 2026 plans.
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Quick note: Forum support coverage will be lighter than usual this week and next as people are off on holiday, so you may encounter some process delays (for example, things may take longer than usual to get approved). We expect to be back to normal on Monday Jan 5.
Hope you all get to enjoy some relaxing time off as well! :)
I've updated the public doc that summarizes the CEA Online Team's OKRs to add Q4.2, which takes us to the end of the year.
Posting a bit late since I just got back from a long holiday â here's a bonus photo from my trip! :)
Hey, thanks for asking! I'm not sure if there's a specific reason â it's likely that simply no one prioritized doing it. Note that I think many of the posts in the EA Handbook besides the first one do have audio, it's just not consistent.
The Forum Team has manually enabled audio on all the posts, but some of them will require additional work from Type III Audio (who provides the AI narration), so it may take some time for them to appear on the site.
In the meantime, you're welcome to make your own audio or video versions of the posts! I think it would be great for them to reach a wider audience. :)
I've updated the public doc that summarizes the CEA Online Team's OKRs to add Q4.1 (the next six weeks).
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We're working with LW to resolve any bugs, but they have higher priority issues right now so I'm unsure how long it will take to fix. In the meantime, you can try unchecking that box and manually posting in both places. You can help us diagnose the issue by reporting any bugs you see.Â
The surprise is what kind of sweet! ^^