November 2020 gwern.net newsletter

post by gwern · 2020-12-03T22:47:16.917Z · LW · GW · 5 comments

This is a link post for https://www.gwern.net/newsletter/2020/11

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comment by Yitz (yitz) · 2020-12-03T22:50:46.076Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Uh, there's no text here. Is there supposed to be?

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↑ comment by habryka (habryka4) · 2020-12-03T23:29:32.027Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

It's just a linkpost. No text.

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↑ comment by gwern · 2020-12-04T15:23:22.821Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

People tend to be text-blind (particularly when skimming), so just writing

This is a linkpost for https://www.gwern.net/newsletter/2020/11

is not enough. A redesign using icons or color to help distinguish link from text posts might be useful. Perhaps a green circle on the header as well to be consistent with links, or a hooked arrow prepended to the text to point 'out'/indicate movement?

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↑ comment by habryka (habryka4) · 2020-12-04T18:52:05.610Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Yeah, I agree with this. We haven't been receiving many pure linkposts, so fixing this hasn't been top priority. But I do expect to improve linkposts like this (maybe also with some kind of smaller automated preview that helps you get at least a bit of traction on whatever is being linked to).

↑ comment by Yitz (yitz) · 2020-12-04T04:51:40.650Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

ah, okay.