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  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #2642.

To be clear, if you copy the entire box quote and paste it into a textarea, it will start with the > sign. I just double checked.

This doesn't work for me the way it does for you. I tried copying the entire quote, and also in a separate attempt, copying extra stuff above and below the box quote, and neither gave me the > sign.

I have tried on my windows computer and my iPad.

#2642·Benjamin Davies, 21 days ago

I tried copying the entire quote…

Cannot reproduce. If I triple-click a word in a box quote, then copy/paste, I get the > sign.

  Benjamin Davies criticized idea #2639.

To be clear, if you copy the entire box quote and paste it into a textarea, it will start with the > sign. I just double checked.

You’re saying you’d still want the > if you only copy/pasted part of the box quote, right?

#2639·Dennis HackethalOP, 21 days ago

To be clear, if you copy the entire box quote and paste it into a textarea, it will start with the > sign. I just double checked.

This doesn't work for me the way it does for you. I tried copying the entire quote, and also in a separate attempt, copying extra stuff above and below the box quote, and neither gave me the > sign.

I have tried on my windows computer and my iPad.

  Dennis Hackethal criticized idea #2633.

I could cache ideas so deeply nested trees can be rendered at once.

#2633·Dennis HackethalOP revised 21 days ago

A single new idea somewhere down the tree could invalidate the cache and slow things down again.

  Dennis Hackethal criticized idea #2633.

I could cache ideas so deeply nested trees can be rendered at once.

#2633·Dennis HackethalOP revised 21 days ago

Initial page loads would still be slow for users.

  Dennis Hackethal commented on criticism #2637.

When copying a box quote from Veritula, the box quote formatting (>) is lost.

#2637·Benjamin Davies, 21 days ago

To be clear, if you copy the entire box quote and paste it into a textarea, it will start with the > sign. I just double checked.

You’re saying you’d still want the > if you only copy/pasted part of the box quote, right?

  Dennis Hackethal criticized idea #2633.

I could cache ideas so deeply nested trees can be rendered at once.

#2633·Dennis HackethalOP revised 21 days ago

Cache invalidation for user-based caching sounds like a nightmare.

  Benjamin Davies submitted criticism #2637.

When copying a box quote from Veritula, the box quote formatting (>) is lost.

  Dennis Hackethal commented on criticism #2630.

Discussions are getting slower to render as they grow. It’s a rendering issue (not a db issue).

#2630·Dennis HackethalOP revised 21 days ago

On initial page load, I could just load the first ten or so top-level ideas and their immediate children, just to reduce wait times and populate the page. Then load the rest asynchronously.

  Dennis Hackethal commented on criticism #2630.

Discussions are getting slower to render as they grow. It’s a rendering issue (not a db issue).

#2630·Dennis HackethalOP revised 21 days ago

I could lazy load ideas: only load the parts of the page that would be visible on the current viewport. Then load more parts as the user scrolls.

  Dennis Hackethal revised criticism #2632 and unmarked it as a criticism.

I could cache ideas so deeply nested trees can be rendered at once.

I could cache ideas so deeply nested trees can be rendered at once.

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #2630.

Discussions are getting slower to render as they grow. It’s a rendering issue (not a db issue).

#2630·Dennis HackethalOP revised 21 days ago

I could cache ideas so deeply nested trees can be rendered at once.

  Dennis Hackethal revised criticism #2596.

Discussions are getting slower to render as they grow.

Discussions are getting slower to render as they grow. It’s a rendering issue (not a db issue).

  Dennis Hackethal revised criticism #2624.

Feature idea: a page that shows you a random idea of yours that has pending criticisms and then helps you address them all.

Feature idea: page at /ideas/:id/guide which shows you an idea and helps you address all pending criticisms one by one, if any. At the end, it shows a message ‘You’re all set!’ or something like that.

  Dennis Hackethal submitted criticism #2627.

On iPad, the footer doesn’t extend all the way to the bottom of the page.

  Dennis Hackethal submitted criticism #2626.

Changing the query on the search page moves the cursor to the start of the query input. It should move to the end or, ideally, keep its position.

  Dennis Hackethal submitted criticism #2625.

On the search page, there should be a button to clear the query input.

  Dennis Hackethal submitted criticism #2624.

Feature idea: a page that shows you a random idea of yours that has pending criticisms and then helps you address them all.

  Dennis Hackethal commented on criticism #420.

Now that there are user profiles (#408), each profile can have a tab for unproblematic ideas. Among all the ideas a user has submitted, those are the ones he can rationally hold. And another tab for problematic ideas, ie ideas he has submitted that he cannot rationally hold.

#420·Dennis HackethalOP revised over 1 year ago

Then people could occasionally check the second tab for ideas they think they can rationally hold but actually can’t. And then they can work on addressing criticisms. A kind of ‘mental housekeeping’ to ensure they never accidentally hold on to problematic ideas.

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #2601.

Would be nice highlighting strings matching the query in search results.

#2601·Dennis HackethalOP, 22 days ago

Done as of f2531a2.

  Dennis Hackethal criticized idea #2620.

Fallibilism is the view that there is no criterion to say with certainty what’s true and what’s false. As a result, we inevitably make mistakes and all of our knowledge is tentatively true. Nothing is obvious but depends on what one understands about reality. It also means that no knowledge is beyond revision, even if it asserts itself to be so. This means that we can't be certain about anything, because we don't have a criterion of truth. Knowledge grows by addressing problems in our knowledge. We solve problems by guessing solutions and testing them. This also means we should always be careful not to destroy or even slow down the things and ideas that correct errors and thereby create knowledge. Some of those ideas are freedom, privacy, and free markets. We are also never the passive recipients of our knowledge; we are the creators.

This view is mainly influenced by Popper, and errors are my own.

#2620·Zelalem MekonnenOP revised 22 days ago

… all of our knowledge is tentatively true.

This is still false, see #2603. You moved it from one place to another but I don’t see how that helped.

  Zelalem Mekonnen revised idea #2616. The revision addresses idea #2603.

Fallibilism is the view that there is no criterion to say with certainty what’s true and what’s false. As a result, we inevitably make mistakes and all of our knowledge is tentatively true. Nothing is obvious but depends on what one understands about reality. It also means that no knowledge is beyond revision, even if it asserts itself to be so. This means that we can't be certain about anything, because we don't have a criterion of truth. Knowledge grows by addressing problems in our knowledge. We solve problems by guessing solutions and testing them. This also means we should always be careful not to destroy or even slow down the things and ideas that correct errors and thereby create knowledge. Some of those ideas are freedom, privacy, and free markets. We are also never the passive recipients of our knowledge; we are the creators.

This view is mainly influenced by Popper, and errors are my own.

Fallibilism is the view that there is no criterion to say with certainty what’s true and what’s false. As a result, we inevitably make mistakes and all of our knowledge is tentatively true. Nothing is obvious but depends on what one understands about reality. It also means that no knowledge is beyond revision, even if it asserts itself to be so. This means that we can't be certain about anything, because we don't have a criterion of truth. Knowledge grows by addressing problems in our knowledge. We solve problems by guessing solutions and testing them. This also means we should always be careful not to destroy or even slow down the things and ideas that correct errors and thereby create knowledge. Some of those ideas are freedom, privacy, and free markets. We are also never the passive recipients of our knowledge; we are the creators.

This view is mainly influenced by Popper, and errors are my own.

  Dennis Hackethal revised idea #2614 and marked it as a criticism.

I didn’t want to just write what you have suggested, parroting isn’t understanding. Writing it in my own words helps the growth of both my understanding and writing. test edit

I didn’t want to just write what you have suggested, parroting isn’t understanding. Writing it in my own words helps the growth of both my understanding and writing.

  Zelalem Mekonnen revised idea #2602.

Fallibilism is the idea that all of our knowledge is tentatively true, and nothing is obvious but depends on what one understands about reality. It also means that no knowledge is beyond revision, even if it asserts itself to be so. This means that we can't be certain about anything, because we don't have a criterion of truth. Knowledge grows by addressing problems in our knowledge. We solve problems by guessing solutions and testing them. This also means we should always be careful not to destroy or even slow down the things and ideas that correct errors and thereby create knowledge. Some of those ideas are freedom, privacy, and free markets. We are also never the passive recipients of our knowledge; we are the creators.

This view is mainly influenced by Popper, and errors are my own.

Fallibilism is the view that there is no criterion to say with certainty what’s true and what’s false. As a result, we inevitably make mistakes and all of our knowledge is tentatively true. Nothing is obvious but depends on what one understands about reality. It also means that no knowledge is beyond revision, even if it asserts itself to be so. This means that we can't be certain about anything, because we don't have a criterion of truth. Knowledge grows by addressing problems in our knowledge. We solve problems by guessing solutions and testing them. This also means we should always be careful not to destroy or even slow down the things and ideas that correct errors and thereby create knowledge. Some of those ideas are freedom, privacy, and free markets. We are also never the passive recipients of our knowledge; we are the creators.

This view is mainly influenced by Popper, and errors are my own.

  Zelalem Mekonnen revised criticism #2612 and unmarked it as a criticism.

I didn’t just want to write what you have suggested, as parroting isn’t understanding. Writing it in my own words helps the growth of both my understanding and writing. test edit

I didn’t want to just write what you have suggested, parroting isn’t understanding. Writing it in my own words helps the growth of both my understanding and writing. test edit

  Dennis Hackethal revised criticism #2604.

I didn’t just want to write what you have suggested, as parroting isn’t understanding. Writing it in my own words helps the growth of both my understanding and writing.

I didn’t just want to write what you have suggested, as parroting isn’t understanding. Writing it in my own words helps the growth of both my understanding and writing. test edit