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A discussion can get long even if each criticism is concise.

Someone who recently joined made a bunch of low-quality posts in a short amount of time.

why?

why?

Not if the criticism is clear and concise. That should be incentivized somehow.

A discussion needs to be more skimmable via one or both of these:
1. hide long posts behind "read more" button
2. collapse critique chains/threads behind a "reply more" button

The UI needs to be more minimalistic. Too many buttons to click on. Needs clear primary action on every screen.

Need summaries at top of discussions. Could be AI generated.

Idea: communities.
Communities group or maybe even replace discussions.
Could live at /v/community-name.
There could be a community around nutrition, another for software engineering, a meta community for Veritula, etc.
@davies could have his own community to build his Wikipedia competitor.

Unclear how comments would be rendered.

Not sure this is a good idea. You say you wouldn’t mind horizontal scrolling, but users generally dislike horizontal scroll.

Need rate limiting for new users to prevent excessive posting.

A ‘supersession’ isn’t some special flag in the system – it’s just another criticism that can be countercriticized. So I hesitate to implement special functionality for ‘special’ criticisms.

Outdated is different from superseded. The versions show at the top of the idea. That signals at least potential ‘supersession’ before you start reading.

A ‘supercession’ isn’t some special flag in the system – it’s just another criticism that can be countercriticized. So I hesitate to implement special functionality for ‘special’ criticisms.

Alternatively, you could make an option "allow revisions by other users" in the new idea form that is off by default.

You could make an option "allow revisions by other users" in the new idea form that is off by default.

Idea: ability to lock an idea to prevent edits. If you submit the first version, you get to lock the idea. Useful especially on your own profile that you might use as more of a blog and don’t necessarily want others changing your ideas.

I would prefer to find out I was reading an outdated version of something before I started reading it, not at the end, and not in the comments.

There is, in the comments.

But there’s no indication that the current version has been superseded.

…the site should let [visitors] know if there is a superseding revised version of [an idea].

There are arrow buttons linking to the previous and next version, and the UI says which version you’re currently looking at.

I first want to see some more people posting to their profiles so there’ll be enough ideas to show in that tab.

Valid, done.

Suggestion: Make italicised text the same colour as regular text.

Bold text is good in red. Italicised text is less legible, and the red compounds that.

This would also create more of a differentiation of emphasis between bold and italicised text.