Search Ideas

Not if the feature is backwards compatible.

That would mean fetching an idea to compute the path for each hashtag. Overhead?

Facebook does it this way, too.

Reddit is a bit different because they have multiple subreddits/communities, but each community has top-level posts which people can then comment on. They have a completely separate page/UI for top-level posts. And then directly underneath a top-level post, there’s a textarea saying “Join the conversation”.

Could have backwards compatibility for the short version and continue using the hashtag in the UI. Best of both worlds?

That would make idea URLs more meaningful, but there’s something simple and beautiful about the shorter URLs that only have the numeric ID.

The way IG solves this is by rendering the form in a fixed position. It’s still on the bottom but always remains visible.

Use friendly IDs for ideas? A ‘mixture’ where URLs say '/ideas/123-first-30-or-so-chars-of-idea-here'.

Done as of e6a90e5.

Friendly IDs for discussions would be nice. With automatic redirects for numeric ID from legacy links.

All emails have unsubscribe links, but people shouldn’t be able to unsubscribe from system emails like password resets.

Done as of 9c14b22.

Fixed as of 985430e.

Newly added comments keep animating when hidden and then unhidden.

Duplicate of #453.

I should revisit this now that I have email infrastructure in place.

See #595. The form for new ideas is pushed to the very bottom of the discussion page. For long discussion, that means users won’t know where to submit new ideas.

Done as of 7ef69da.

Each activity should have a distinct HTML title. The browser history and search results in search engines all look the same…

Each activity should have an HTML title. The browser history and search results in search engines all look the same…

Fixed as of b555677.

Sure, philosophers and pedants do. But typically people use the word "know" in situations well short of being absolutely sure.

If we use the correspondence theory of truth, then truth consists of explanations that correspond "perfectly" to reality. In that sense all our statements are false: we don't have those explanations that perfectly correspond, all our actual statements are approximations, or deductions from approximations (1+1=2 is a deduction from a set of explanations, but that set is not entirely true - since the set is inconsistent and incomplete)

correspondance

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I think it does imply a conflict. I think every emotional sensation — including urges — arises from problems in the Popperian sense: two or more incompatible theories in conflict.

For example, consider hunger. One theory (Drive A) is that we don’t want to be hungry, while another signals that we are hungry (from ephemeral sense data (which could itself be viewed as a Drive, though that’s not important here)). The conflict between these theories produces the urge — in this case, the sensation of hunger.

I explain these conflicts in more detail, with further examples of Drives, Intuitions, and Statements, in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEcR_0GbzRE

Addition 01-09-2025:
In the case of hunger, the sensation was signaling an unaddressed problem, but as you correctly pointed out, not all emotions signal unaddressed problems. Emotions are a feedback mechanism that can reflect different stages of problem solving. For instance, joy may signal a resolved problem, and impatience might signal frustration with an ongoing one. Likewise, anxiety can serve as an early warning of potential obstacles ahead, while relief marks the successful removal of a previously pressing issue.