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#5371·Dennis HackethalOP, 2 months agoIdea: showing the quickest way to rehabilitate an idea.
Could be a visual feature showing something like the shortest path down a discussion tree where a criticism needs to be addressed.
Or all such branches.
Such a thing has probably been done in graph theory before, could look for existing algorithms.
Each reply answers one idea, so addressing an idea’s pending criticisms directly is always the quickest way to rehabilitate it: one new criticism for each. Going further down the tree never takes fewer, so there’s no shorter path to show. What helps is going through them one at a time, which the guide now does (#2628).
#2628·Dennis HackethalOP revised about 1 year agoFeature 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.
Done, live now. Every idea with pending criticisms has “Rehabilitate” under it, which opens that idea’s guide, and “Guide” in the navbar goes through all of yours, starting with the ideas closest to being adoptable. Either way, it’s one pending criticism at a time: you can criticize it, revise the idea, move on, or skip. Moving on is the abandoning from #4089: it sets the idea aside for you alone, and the idea comes back if it gets new criticisms.
#6043·Dennis HackethalOP, 5 days agoIdea: AI suggests criticisms to address before you even submit your idea.
Same criticism as #6058: this feature would need to pay its rent somehow.
#6056·Dennis HackethalOP revised 5 days agoNeed summaries at top of discussions and for nodes in the discussion tree. Could be AI generated.
Maybe one day, when Veritula makes enough to pay for this feature.
Expand summaries to nodes in discussion trees
Need summaries at top of discussions. Could be AI generated.
Need summaries at top of discussions and for nodes in the discussion tree. Could be AI generated.
#2912·Dennis HackethalOP, 12 months ago‘Discussions’ are too narrow a term for a collection of ideas. See #2878.
While ideas should always be ‘discussable’, that doesn’t mean everyone who wants to share an idea always wants to start a discussion. Maybe they just want to put some information out there.
Since people can now post on their profiles, there’s arguably no need for something other than ‘discussions’ outside of profiles anymore.
#2912·Dennis HackethalOP, 12 months ago‘Discussions’ are too narrow a term for a collection of ideas. See #2878.
While ideas should always be ‘discussable’, that doesn’t mean everyone who wants to share an idea always wants to start a discussion. Maybe they just want to put some information out there.
Renaming costs a lot. URLs like /discussions/… would need redirects, and the MCP tools and the code all say ‘discussion’.
#2912·Dennis HackethalOP, 12 months ago‘Discussions’ are too narrow a term for a collection of ideas. See #2878.
While ideas should always be ‘discussable’, that doesn’t mean everyone who wants to share an idea always wants to start a discussion. Maybe they just want to put some information out there.
Chronicles depend on the word ‘discussion’. They retell discussions, like the one between Newton’s and Einstein’s theories.
#2912·Dennis HackethalOP, 12 months ago‘Discussions’ are too narrow a term for a collection of ideas. See #2878.
While ideas should always be ‘discussable’, that doesn’t mean everyone who wants to share an idea always wants to start a discussion. Maybe they just want to put some information out there.
#2912·Dennis HackethalOP, 12 months ago‘Discussions’ are too narrow a term for a collection of ideas. See #2878.
While ideas should always be ‘discussable’, that doesn’t mean everyone who wants to share an idea always wants to start a discussion. Maybe they just want to put some information out there.
The word ‘discussion’ sets the right expectation. Veritula is built on the idea that anything you post can be criticized. ‘Entry’, ‘post’, ‘note’, etc suggest a place to put information out unchallenged. Someone who only wants to share information can already do that with a single top-level idea.
No changes to the text.
‘Board’
#6044·Moritz Wallawitsch, 5 days agoIt would be nice to have a changelog as i cannot see the commit history (ex. of one of an app i built https://understandtutor.com/changelog)
https://veritula.com/discussions/veritula-meta/activities
It’s not quite the same but should give you an idea.
#6033·Dennis HackethalOP, 6 days ago·AI-assistedBoth done, as of
3945f28aand82b641de. Long ideas now show cut short, with a Read more button that expands them in place. Discussions open with settled branches collapsed: the replies to comments and to addressed criticisms sit behind a plus on their gutter line. Pending criticisms, which decide whether an idea can be adopted, stay open. In most browsers, Cmd+F still finds text in collapsed branches and opens them.
It would be nice to have a changelog as i cannot see the commit history (ex. of one of an app i built https://understandtutor.com/changelog)
Idea: AI suggests criticisms to address before you even submit your idea.
#4728·Moritz Wallawitsch, 7 months agoThe UI needs to be more minimalistic. Too many buttons to click on. Needs clear primary action on every screen.
As of today’s deploy, ideas show far fewer buttons. The edit, repost, react, subscribe and menu buttons in an idea’s header stay hidden until you hover over the idea. The same goes for the React button in the activity feed and on profiles. Comment and Criticize are plain text rather than gray boxes. So while you read, those two are the only actions you see. Whether an idea is a criticism now shows in its header, not in a pill under the text.
#2753·Benjamin Davies revised 12 months agoIdea: Veritula Articles
Currently, Veritula is a discussion website. I believe it could one day do what Wikipedia and Grokipedia do, but better.
A step towards that would be enabling users to produce ‘articles’ or something similar.
An ‘Articles’ tab would be distinct from the ‘Discussions’ tab, featuring explanatory documents similar to encyclopedia entries, and perhaps also blogpost-like content.
Articles focus on distilling the good ideas created/discovered in the discussions that occur on Veritula.
What you said you were after, posting ideas without starting a discussion (#2813), is possible now: you can post on your profile (#4399). And as of f27080b9, the activity feed has a Profiles tab for browsing those posts.
Archiving #2753 for now, since #2751 and #2877 still stand. If profile posts fall short of what you had in mind, leave a criticism and I’ll take a look.
#4824·Tyler Mills, 7 months agoThoughts on an optional "implies" relation for ideas? I find myself commenting on one idea something which it implies, then criticizing that, but the original idea is not marked criticized. Being able to chain or bundle ideas avoids the bookkeeping issue of having to make new criticisms for each step in the chain, if one is criticized.
When it’s your own idea, I recommend adding implications to the idea itself, as part of a revision. That way, criticism chains stay intact.