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Improved compose UI features

admin said in #2918 3w ago:

The new post compose ui (for new threads and for replies to posts) has some improvements today:

you will see a preview of your image if you post with one. For new threads it sticks it where you would see it once posted. For replies, it hangs off the side or top to not take up too much vertical space.

The compose box is generally more vertically compact so we can sticky it to the bottom of the screen when you're writing. This makes it much easier to respond to things upthread, and look them over while writing your response. The sticky behavior is triggered by having non-empty text in the comment box.

This is the first bigger visible feature written by someone other than me. (Another anon wrote an RSS feed a while back). He can dox himself if he likes. We've been hanging out in person doing a little sofiechan hackathon. Lots of stuff getting done. Hopefully more soon. Very exciting. Thanks anon!

The new post compose

dev said in #2919 3w ago:

Very happy to contribute to a worthwhile project. Hope you all enjoy the feature, and let me know if you run into any issues.

referenced by: >>2923 >>2931

Very happy to contri

anon 0x506 said in #2923 3w ago:

>>2919
Thanks for making an RSS feed. I was wanting one recently when I was trying to make a notification system for myself.

I setup a basic notification system using ITTT. I’ll let you know how it goes.

referenced by: >>2924

Thanks for making an

admin said in #2924 3w ago:

>>2923
The RSS feed was a different anon who may or may not still be reading/around. We’ve had it for at least 6 months but i never announced it i guess. I dont really get RSS so im not even sure it still works.

What’s ITTT?

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The RSS feed was a d

anon 0x506 said in #2925 3w ago:

>>2924
Oh I see. It’s actually IFTTT, which stands for If This, Then That. It can pull from RSS feeds to do all sorts of integrations. I actually don’t really know that much about it so I don’t know if I set it up right. But I made a basic integration that if there is a new entry in the feed then I get an email.

Link to their site: https://ifttt.com/explore/how-to-use-rss-feeds

Oh I see. It’s actua

anon 0x506 said in #2931 2w ago:

>>2919
>>2924
It worked perfectly. It only gives emails for new posts, not bumps via new replies, but this is actually what I was looking for.

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It worked perfectly.

admin said in #2933 2w ago:

>>2931
I guess we're going to have to build our own newsletter at some point here. Basically there should be an option on the account page to add an email subscription that notifies you of new posts, or best posts weekly, or something like that. Also DMs. When we add notifications, we can include those too. What do you guys make of that? What would the best possible sofiechan newsletter look like?

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I guess we're going

anon 0x506 said in #3000 1w ago:

>>2933
I think a good newsletter contains: The best rated posts, posts with most discussion from different people, and perhaps posts highlighted for predicting something right or being of high quality. It should probably be handwritten and handpicked posts for now instead of having the algo just link to the highest rated threads automatically. An example of a post being highlighted for topical discussion is the tariff thread, a few posters got it quite right that Trump had no real plan with the tariffs and is flailing in the wind. Things like that, new features, and other announcements. Perhaps if a book club is started then it can be shared there as well. Weekly is probably a good time span to release this.

referenced by: >>3007

I think a good newsl

admin said in #3007 1w ago:

>>3000
For what it's worth, "best rated" posts already includes a term for "most discussion from different people" (basically we count unique posters per thread weighted by their reputation), though perhaps we could improve that by putting more weight on it and also counting subsequent posts from the same posters a bit more than zero.

I like the idea of retrospective correctness evaluation. I'll think about how we might do that best as a regular feature of discussion and not just the editor's opinion in the newsletter (which breaks the community-driven paradigm somewhat). Ideas appreciated.

Let's imagine a newsletter done in the sofiechan-style community paradigm: every week on a particular date and time, the best newsletter we have available goes out to subscribers. The newsletter consists of three parts: a letter from the editor, a list of automatically curated top posts for that ~week, and a list of manually curated posts mentioned by the editor. The "editor" is just whoever wrote the best newsletter that week. Halfway through the week, the newsletter draft goes up as a special thread. It starts as a default stub like "here are the best threads on sofiechan from this week:". Anyone can submit a better draft in the replies discussing those posts, bring in others (like your tariff retrospective example). The best reply/draft gets used as the blurb for the newsletter, and any posts mentioned in the blurb get included as editor's choice. The final newsletter is then published (on substack?) and a link to it is posted as its own thread for discussion. Whoever wrote the blurb gets a big slice of the credit for the value of the newsletter thread. This way it's a bit of a contest to write the newsletter. Of course if no one does, I can, or we can just go with the default, but this way it's open-ended and community driven (and I don't have to write it every week if someone else is feeling into it).

That's my first draft idea for the newsletter. Thoughts?

referenced by: >>3008

For what it's worth,

anon 0x506 said in #3008 8d ago:

>>3007
I really like this idea of extending community curation to the newsletter and I’m excited to see the first one. Here are some thoughts I have:

- Substack’s setup is really good and I works perfectly for this. Can use their network to bring more people to sofiechan as well. This kind of connects with an idea I had from >>2818, flipping it around: it could be great to have pre-established writers and people making a name for themself who edit a newsletter use the guest post feature on the sofiechan Substack with their own account.
- The best threads stub could have a 36 or so hour timer with a note/rule to only include posts before the timer started so there wouldn’t be an incentive to wait to include other possibly interesting posts. Also reduces confusion/overlap between weeks.
- The newsletter encourages people to use named nyms so they can verifiably claim their high-rep posts from the week. This will be cool to see play out.
- Besides editing the newsletter, another cool incentive that would benefit the site overall could be to add these people to a groupchat on sofiechan with previous editors. Groupchats are a very different dynamic so it may be more appropriate at a later time, but they can be very useful for coordinating growth and the success of online projects.
- >>retrospective correctness evaluation
One possible, albeit out there, solution is to have custom prediction markets for certain events that people write forecasts for. Could be a collaboration down the road with Manifold, the play-money prediction market that allows anyone to make a market.

I really like this i

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