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Subreddits besides Discussion #487

Open frediy opened 9 years ago

frediy commented 9 years ago

From predicta...@gmail.com on June 20, 2013 10:04:02

At the request of MIRI people - want additional subreddits for meetups to live in, purgatory for dealing with trolls, etc. It is possible for admins to create new subreddits, but properly adding decent support (proper karma tracking, site navigation, etc.) requires work.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/lesswrong/issues/detail?id=389

frediy commented 9 years ago

From predicta...@gmail.com on June 19, 2013 17:04:56

To be done properly, going to need new banners - Is there someone who made the Discussion banner?

Estimate - 5.

frediy commented 9 years ago

From lukep...@gmail.com on June 25, 2013 17:04:12

Presumably we can create this capacity without immediately deciding which new subreddits we want to implement?

Status: Authorised

frediy commented 9 years ago

From lukep...@gmail.com on June 25, 2013 17:05:10

I'm not sure who made the Discussion banner. Matt might know.

Cc: Matthew.Fallshaw yudkow...@gmail.com

frediy commented 9 years ago

From lukep...@gmail.com on July 09, 2013 15:15:27

I think we should start with a Meetups subreddit for meetups but not give it it's own nav bar item, because we've already got the /meetups page. Then meetups can be posted there instead of cluttering up Discussion. Eliezer, would you like to confirm this specific change?

Cc: -Matthew.Fallshaw predicta...@gmail.com

frediy commented 9 years ago

From yudkow...@gmail.com on July 09, 2013 17:06:58

This sounds like a reasonable start - eventually we may want more subreddits than that.

frediy commented 9 years ago

From jack.tri...@gmail.com on December 02, 2013 18:39:37

Should the meetups subreddit be public (anyone can post), restricted (anyone can view but contributors can submit) or private?

I guess what I'm asking is: is there currently an approved list of users allowed to create meetups or can anyone start one?

frediy commented 9 years ago

From wjmo...@gmail.com on December 02, 2013 19:27:24

Anyone can create a meet up as long as they meet this criteria:

c.user_is_loggedin and c.user.safe_karma >= g.discussion_karma_to_post):

frediy commented 9 years ago

From jack.tri...@gmail.com on February 16, 2014 19:17:58

We're nearly ready to deploy a change that puts meetups into their own subreddit but there are a couple of final wrinkles:

  1. Doing this will make past meetups inaccessible (they are currently posted to Discussion). I don't believe they're often accessed but sometimes people want to go back and look up addresses or something.
  2. /r/meetups is accessible if you put it into the location bar anyway.

Therefore:

I think we need a link to /r/meetups, and I propose we put it in the bar at the top alongside Main and Discussion (see attached).

I'll adjust /r/meetups so the only way to post is through the "add new meetup" button.

Thoughts/objections/alternatives?

frediy commented 9 years ago

From predicta...@gmail.com on March 24, 2014 17:36:15

Not sure about 1, but I don't think that losing access to old meetups is too much of a problem - they'll still be in Discussion if someone wants to look at them.

  1. /r/meetups should be private, so no one can see it. If it is private anyone who didn't create it/get added by the creator (or probably a global mod) will just see a page not found error. I assume when you typed in the address, you were signed in as the user used to create the subreddit? The whole point is that /r/meetups is invisible and users only see meetups through /meetups.

Cc: jack.tri...@gmail.com wjmo...@gmail.com lukep...@gmail.com

frediy commented 9 years ago

From jack.tri...@gmail.com on March 24, 2014 17:47:15

It's not just old meetups that I'm worried about losing, but also meetups that were created before this change is deployed? Will they still show on the map and be otherwise accessible?

You're right about accessing the subreddit as the creating user.

I've spoken to a guy here who used to coordinate the local meetups and he found it more than occasionally useful to be able to go back and find contact details and such from previous meetups.

frediy commented 9 years ago

From predicta...@gmail.com on March 24, 2014 17:48:31

What is the distinction between an old meetup and one created before this change?

frediy commented 9 years ago

From jack.tri...@gmail.com on March 24, 2014 17:50:57

I've been calling a meetup that's been scheduled and has happened before this code change an "old meetup".

A meetup created before this change is one that's been created but scheduled for some time in the future, so when the code is deployed, the meetup still hasn't happened yet.

frediy commented 9 years ago

From nick...@gmail.com on March 25, 2014 13:04:06

Bumping this up to high priority, based on conversations I've had with Luke. MIRI is interested in having this happen sooner than other things in the queue.

Labels: -Priority-Medium -Milestone-Future Priority-High Milestone-Now

frediy commented 9 years ago

From jack.tri...@gmail.com on May 12, 2014 17:11:07

Meetups are now in /r/meetups, but are still accessible through the existing site features. Some users are concerned that removing them from /r/discussion will reduce attendance: http://lesswrong.com/lw/k6r/open_thread_may_5_11_2014/aw9l

frediy commented 9 years ago

From predicta...@gmail.com on May 12, 2014 17:54:28

I think most of that will be fixed when we get the dashboard up.