915 sats \ 16 replies \ @go 11 Nov 2023 \ on: Feature idea: turn off exponential pricing to encourage long-form writing meta
It's an interesting conundrum - that SN is for real-time news and conversation but there's not real space or design for evergreen content. There are some excellent posts that should be easily accessible for more than 48 hours
Always open to suggestions on how to make content here more evergreen. It's not something we're actively avoiding or anything.
I'll be deploying some significant improvements to search in the next release which should help some. We're also planning to make linking to past content native to the editor. We also have ideas around a "lost treasure" page which should resurface old gems.
We'd love to have more ideas to throw around!
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I have so much to say wrt search, esp embeddings-related search for message composition. I can do it as another one of these "feature idea" posts, or in some other venue if you'd rather. That one is pretty ornate to describe, but maybe that's okay.
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I'd love to hear it.
Given written work is a search query finding fascinating people, perhaps there are lurkers here that share your fascination with embeddings, or some adjacent information mapping facet, and can color our understanding of how they might work on SN. So I'd vote for posting it here but I'd read it if you sent in the mail tbh
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So encouraging to read this. Thanks for continuously building in public and being so open to feedback
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I think Darth’s idea for a customizable profile page is a great first step, where authors can highlight their best work
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Oh yeah we definitely want to do that!
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What fosters a sense of community is the weekly regulars like fun fact Friday, Monday meme, weekend book recommendations. I love it that I can expect to learn certain things on specific days of the week. Perhaps we can take it one step further and have seasonal themes. For example, Jan 3 is Proof of Keys Day. We could have a thread that commemorates this day and compiles useful posts related to safeguarding your assets n Cold Storage tips
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That's so true! Supplying and meeting expectations is a huge part of community building.
Perhaps we can take it one step further and have seasonal themes.
Topic "seasons" would be pretty cool. As a low effort start, maybe we could pin a post each season and everyone could chime in some megathread.
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I love the idea of low effort start. Fast iteration is key to being action/oriented n pushing for improvements, small as they may be
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Ohhh I’m more embarrassed to admit that I haven’t watched it listened to SNL yet. Is there a place where I can find past episodes of these podcasts? videos?
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I think the Youtube channel has them all. They also post a notice when they're doing it live, which is how I noticed in the first place.
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Thanks for the heads-up!
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Not saying this in a dick way (at least, that's not my intent) but I think SN is for whatever SN winds up being for. I guess @k00b has made statements before about re-creating the Bitdevs vibe; but the manner in which that happens seems like it contains a giant possibility space.
And (this is just my opinion, I have no formal affiliation w/ SN other than believing in it) I think there's a larger game afoot here than re-creating Bitdevs, or even btc as a topic, which is to use btc as a tool to bring real monetary incentives to see what can be done in online community. How to do that is obviously unclear, but these kinds of experiments can reveal what's possible.
Again, imo. I speak for no one but my own desires.
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Nah that's right. We discussed this somewhat in What are the principles underlying SN's development and growth? It'll be the best community-information-thing that we can build with financial incentives.
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