Dennis Hackethal
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Dennis Hackethal updated discussion ‘Does Compulsory Schooling Serve to Liberate Children?’.
The ‘About’ section changed as follows:
Archive of a discussion tree between Dennis Hackethal and Roswitha Kant from the old Veritula website. The creation dates of the ideas were not retained but newly set. The discussion originally took place in German between August and October 2023 and can be viewed in full here.
Reproduction of a discussion tree between Dennis Hackethal and Roswitha Kant from the old Veritula website. The creation dates of the ideas were not retained but newly set. The discussion originally took place in German between August and October 2023 and can be viewed in full here.
Autofocus should put the cursor at the end of an input, not the beginning.
Feature idea: private discussions only the creator and invited people can see.
Feature idea: private discussions only the creator and invited people can see. This could be a paid feature; $2 per discussion, say.
#2312·Benjamin Davies, 20 days agoMe, too. I think Veritula’s design allows for this pretty naturally since the topic of a discussion can be general enough for various competing ideas to be posted in the discussion.
One thing that Wikipedia articles are very good for is providing well-structured information on a given subject. Discussion threads are not so well structured (the order of information is not based on how high-level or foundational it is, like an encyclopedia entry would be, but rather on the nested chronology of whatever discussion happened to take place.)
Top-level ideas can be structured any way you as author want them to be. (Any idea at any level can, but top-level ideas are presumably where articles could live.) The structure of any particular idea can be different from the structure of the discussion as a whole.
#2701·Dennis HackethalOP revised 1 day agoOld ideas can pollute discussions. Like in this meta thread.
Proposed solution: ideas could be archived automatically if they haven’t been revised or criticized in 90 days, say.
Proposed solution: ideas with pending criticisms could be archived automatically if they haven’t had any activity in the past 30 days, say.
#2630·Dennis HackethalOP revised 6 days agoDiscussions are getting slower to render as they grow. It’s a rendering issue (not a db issue).
I started a discussion earlier, and what I wrote in the “about” section of the discussion was not written well. I would like to revise it. Is this possible? If not, is there an intention to make this possible eventually?
I started a discussion earlier, and what I wrote in the “about” section of the discussion was not written well. I would like to revise it. Is this possible? If not, is there an intention to make this possible eventually?
Feature to collapse all criticized ideas of a discussion? Useful for todo lists.
Feature to collapse all criticized ideas of a discussion? Useful for todo lists.
#1760·Dennis HackethalOP, about 2 months agoAll emails have unsubscribe links, but people shouldn’t be able to unsubscribe from system emails like password resets.
This is not applicable anymore.
Need email notifications.
Need email notifications.
#456·Dennis HackethalOP revised about 1 year agoMostly done, apart from some polishing, as of
5f5c545. Eg @dennis-hackethal.
If it’s mostly done, what’s missing?
#426·Dennis HackethalOP revised about 1 year agoDone as of
cc8e3e9. It now says ‘x unchanged lines collapsed’. See eg this activity.
Now that diffs are formatted, they don’t omit unchanged lines anymore.
#2701·Dennis HackethalOP revised 1 day agoOld ideas can pollute discussions. Like in this meta thread.
Proposed solution: allow people to archive ideas. Maybe only their own.
#2708·Dennis HackethalOP, 1 day agoThere could be periodic reminders and a review board to make it easier.
That could just annoy people and cause them to unsubscribe from emails.
Could do it only for ideas with pending criticisms. If they have pending criticisms, how important can they be? This has the added benefit of creating an incentive for proponents of ideas to address criticisms.
There could be periodic reminders and a review board to make it easier.
#2703·Dennis HackethalOP, 1 day agoProposed solution: edit a discussion to hide top-level ideas. That way, discussion owners can hide ideas they no longer deem relevant.
For example, completed tasks in discussions used as issue trackers, like this Meta thread, could be hidden so they don’t pollute the thread.
There could be a button for users to reveal hidden ideas so nothing is lost or hidden dishonestly. And direct links to hidden ideas would continue to work.
People might just forget to do this.
#2704·Dennis HackethalOP, 1 day agoProposed solution: ideas could be archived automatically if they haven’t been revised or criticized in 90 days, say.
This could inadvertently hide dormant but important ideas.
#2703·Dennis HackethalOP, 1 day agoProposed solution: edit a discussion to hide top-level ideas. That way, discussion owners can hide ideas they no longer deem relevant.
For example, completed tasks in discussions used as issue trackers, like this Meta thread, could be hidden so they don’t pollute the thread.
There could be a button for users to reveal hidden ideas so nothing is lost or hidden dishonestly. And direct links to hidden ideas would continue to work.
This requires manual action. Could mean a lot of work depending on the discussion.
#2701·Dennis HackethalOP revised 1 day agoOld ideas can pollute discussions. Like in this meta thread.
Proposed solution: ideas could be archived automatically if they haven’t been revised or criticized in 90 days, say.
#2701·Dennis HackethalOP revised 1 day agoOld ideas can pollute discussions. Like in this meta thread.
Proposed solution: edit a discussion to hide top-level ideas. That way, discussion owners can hide ideas they no longer deem relevant.
For example, completed tasks in discussions used as issue trackers, like this Meta thread, could be hidden so they don’t pollute the thread.
There could be a button for users to reveal hidden ideas so nothing is lost or hidden dishonestly. And direct links to hidden ideas would continue to work.
Feature idea: edit a discussion to hide top-level ideas. That way, discussion owners can hide ideas they no longer deem relevant.
For example, completed tasks in discussions used as issue trackers, like this Meta thread, could be hidden so they don’t pollute the thread.
There could be a button for users to reveal hidden ideas so nothing is lost or hidden dishonestly. And direct links to hidden ideas would continue to work.
Old ideas can pollute discussions. Like in this meta thread.