[Site Update] Subscriptions, Bookmarks, & Pingbacks

[-]Wei Dai6y190

I really appreciate the pingback feature, but it looks like on LW it's limited to the top 5 (by karma) pingbacks, while greaterwrong.com shows all of them. (I tested on these posts.) Is this intentional? If so, I don't think it makes sense to artificially restricted the "cited by" list this way, especially without any indication that this is happening?

Also, I'd like to make a feature suggestion, namely an option in the settings to receive notifications when one of my posts or comments is linked somewhere on LW or EA Forum.

[-]Ruby6y40

Seems no one replied to this. The top 5 is a limitation we are well aware of and is on the list to fix for Pingbacks is moved out of beta-status. I think it was there just because it takes extra UI work to have an expanding list. I agree the lack of indication that it's happening is pretty back.

I also really like the notification idea, I do hope we make that happen.

[-]Chris_Leong6y*140

Looks like a major step forward as it'll make it so much easier to receive only the information you want.

[-]Gordon Seidoh Worley6y120

Do on site notifications and email notifications come at the same cadence? For example, if I ask for daily notifications by email and on site, will I see them in both places only daily or will I still see them on site immediately?

I'd like to get daily emails and have immediate on site notifications, but I'm not sure if that's currently possible.

[-]jimrandomh6y100

Same cadence, but separating them does make sense and I might add that option in the future.

[-]Zack_M_Davis6y70

Three cheers for pingbacks! Hip, hip—

[-]Raemon6y50

hoo-

[-]Ruby6y50

rae!

[-]gbear6056y60

A great future feature would be the ability to subscribe to a sequence. For instance, I'd love the ability to get an email for all of the LW Team Updates & Announcements, but I don't want to have to subscribe to all of the members of the LW 2.0 team. I'll get to all of them eventually thanks to the RSS feed, but it'd be nice to see the site updates immediately.

[-]habryka6y20

Yeah, subscribing to a sequence seems pretty reasonable. Will add it to the to-do list.

[-]ozziegooen6y50

This is pretty cool, I look forward to trying them. I'm quite interested to see how the pingbacks will work over time. It could be a good thing for us to later have forecasts on, as I'd imagine it takes longer than karma.

[-]evhub6y30

When I go to manage my subscriptions, it claims that I no longer have any--what happened to all of my old subscriptions?

[-]habryka6y40

Just finished porting over the old subscriptions! Should be fixed now!

[-]jimrandomh6y30

(We forgot to run one of the migration scripts)

[-]evhub6y40

Something shows up now, but they all just say "HopefullyAnonymous" instead of the actual users I subscribed to.

[-]Raemon6y20

checking if this is still the case?

[-]evhub6y30

Looks like it's fixed now; thanks!

[-]Douglas_Knight6y20

Bug report:

When this rolled out I was not subscribed to my own comments and posts. I assume that the intention was that the default was to auto-subscribe to them because (1) that would mimic the old behavior and (2) that is suggested by the screenshots in this post. But I'm also surprised that I'm the first person to report this. (Maybe Pattern, who did not describe it as a bug.) Is it consistent across people?

[-]habryka6y*20

Interesting. Can you say more about what exactly happened? I've inspected a large number of users, all of which seem to have the "auto-subscribe to my comments" and "auto-subscribe to my posts" set, and also tried registering some new users, which also have that flag set. Did you experience them being set previously, and being unset after this update?

[-]Douglas_Knight6y20

What do you mean did I "experience them being set previously"? Do you mean that they were previously optional? I didn't know that and, clearly, was not paying attention.

Not only did I used to receive notifications for replies to my comments and then it stopped, but I still have a record of it. My bell shows the notification from you and then a notification from a month ago, missing a couple replies to recent comments.

[-]habryka6y20

Interesting, I will look more into this. Just to be clear, what exactly did you do to start receiving notifications for your comments?

[-]Douglas_Knight6y40

I went to settings and turned on "auto-subscribe to replies to my comments" (and posts), the checkboxes shown in the image in this post. Since I knew that I wasn't receiving notifications and had just figured out from this post that these setting existed, I wasn't surprised to find them off.

Incidentally, the link to "User Settings" at the top of this post links to lessestwrong. You should probably be using relative links or something.