Sarah Cheng
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I'm a software engineer at the Centre for Effective Altruism. I mostly work on the EA Forum. If you'd like to support our work, sign up for a 30 min user interview with someone on our team. Hearing about your experience with the Forum helps us improve the site for everyone.
In general, we'd be happy to hear any feedback you have! :) Feel free to contact us or post in this suggestion thread. You can also give us anonymous feedback via this form.
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Just letting you know that you can now subscribe to be notified when posts are added to a sequence. Hope this is helpful, and let me know if you run into any issues!
You can now subscribe to be notified when posts are added to a sequence. Hope this is helpful, and let me know if you run into any issues!
Ah I see, glad to hear it! Yeah dismissing the popup in one tab doesn't cause the others to refresh or pull the updated data.
My apologies for the inconvenience, and thanks for flagging this! Unfortunately I'm unable to reproduce the issue. Could you provide some more details, such as what browsers/devices you see this on? Does it persist when you refresh? Are you only seeing this when logged in, or have you encountered this while logged out?
Users can directly edit wiki pages once they have gotten to 10 karma by using the site. I don't believe this list is actively maintained - you can see in the edit history that the last addition was in 2022.
Mini EA Forum Update
We’ve updated our new user onboarding flow! You can see more details in GitHub here.
In addition to making it way prettier, we’re trying out adding some optional steps, including:
- You can select topics you’re interested in, to make your frontpage more relevant to you.
- You can also click the “Customize feed” button on the frontpage - see details here.
- You can choose some authors to subscribe to. You will be notified when an author you are subscribed to publishes a post.
- You can also subscribe from any user’s profile page.
- You’re prompted to fill in some profile information to give other users context on who you are.
- You can also edit your profile here.
I hope that these additional optional steps help new users get more out of the Forum. We will continue to iterate on this flow based on usage and feedback - feel free to reply to this quick take with your thoughts!
One suggestion I would add is to try volunteering. I'm also introverted and went to my first EAG without knowing anyone, and I found it way easier to chat with other volunteers than random people at the conference. The people who volunteer tend to be either fellow first time attendees (including many other students) or people who are friendlier than average.
Mini EA Forum Update
You can now subscribe to be notified when posts are added to a sequence. You can see more details in GitHub here.
We’ve also made it a bit easier to create and edit sequences, including allowing users to delete sequences they’ve made.
I've been thinking a bit about how to improve sequences, so I'd be curious to hear: