The modern internet is replete with feeds such as Twitter, Facebook, Insta, TikTok, Substack, etc. They're bad in ways but also good in ways. I've been exploring the idea that LessWrong could have a very good feed.

I'm posting this announcement with disjunctive hopes: (a) to find enthusiastic early adopters who will refine this into a great product, or (b) find people who'll lead us to an understanding that we shouldn't launch this or should launch it only if designed a very specific way.

You can check it out right now: www.lesswrong.com/feed

From there, you can also enable it on the frontpage in place of Recent Discussion. Below I have some practical notes on using the New Feed.

Note! This feature is very much in beta. It's rough around the edges.

Why have a "feed"?

Far [...]

---

Outline:

(00:40) You can check it out right now: www.lesswrong.com/feed

(01:12) Why have a feed?

(04:44) Making Our Feed Good Actually

(06:09) A model of feeds taking over and why thats bad

(09:41) Unregretted User Minutes

(10:53) Proceeding with Caution

(11:17) Practical Tips about the New Feed

(11:37) Avoiding Confusion

(11:53) Branching Comments Linear Slices

(12:25) Choose How Much Text To Display

(13:00) Following/Subscribing

(14:01) Settings, Settings Everywhere

The original text contained 11 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

---

First published:

Source:

---

Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

---

Images from the article:

Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.