LW Team Updates - October 2019

Hints & Tips: The All Posts Page

LessWrong has a powerful All Posts page which can serve as an alternative to the frontpage. It's URL is www.lesswrong.com/allPosts. The All Posts page has:

Options for filtering all LessWrong content by category, e.g. Frontpage vs Personal blogposts, Curated, Questions, Events, and Meta (mostly deprecated).
Option to sort posts by Magic (New & Upvoted), Recent Comments, New, Old, and Top.
Options to group posts by time periods of All Time, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Yearly.
The All Posts page is also a way to view Shortform posts which show up under the post lists when a non-All Time time period is selected.

[-]riceissa6y30

On textboxes for comments/posts, I noticed that the documentation is for the rich text editor regardless of what option I have set in preferences (I have markdown). To be clear, markdown formatting works; it's just that the documentation tells me to e.g. use Cmd-4 for LaTeX rather than dollar signs. I tried switching to rich text and back to markdown, but the problem persists.

[-]Pattern6y30

Errata:

report [false] of incoming missiles

report incoming missiles

pass on a report of incoming missiles [which was a false alarm]

Looking forward to this:

Stand by for a post describing the experiment and how it went.

[-]Ruby6y20

Thanks!

[-]aquilax6y10

Errata: The RSS link in the "Ways to Follow LessWrong" section leads to the Facebook page.

[-]Ruby6y20

Thanks!

[-]countedblessings6y10

What's the typical timeline for a post to be approved by the moderators? I'd just like to know so I can plan accordingly.

[-]Raemon6y40

It's generally a few hours on average.

Note that the very first time you post you have to be approved manually, as part of our 'deal with spam' plan. Afterwards, it'll still be a few hours before a mod will reliably have decided whether to frontpage your post, but it'll at least show up reliably on /allPosts, personal-blog-enabled-frontpages, and in recent discussion.

(We're also planning to make a change where, once we've moved something to frontpage, it's "bumped" to the front of the frontpage a second time, so days where it ends up taking awhile before a mod reviews the frontpage queue, you won't be at a disadvantage in terms of frontpage-eyeballs, although this unfortunately isn't true yet)

[-]riceissa6y10

On LessWrong's GraphiQL, I noticed that hovering over keywords no longer provides documentation help. (See here for what the hover-over used to look like.) Would it be possible to turn this back on?