![]() ![]() I'm not exactly sure why Scott didn't return to his old blog. The site is also heavyweight, so typical corporations assuming users have a perfect connection just for their bloated website to load. ![]() No edit and no reply notifications are two of the most salient points. Substack, while an improvement on the website somewhat, is a horrible UI. The commenters allude to several other failings but without having made an account on the website when it was available I can't be sure what exactly are they talking about. ![]() Also nesting stops after a certain depth (but it's not consistent?), parent-child infromation have to be inferred purely from the mentions when that happens. Judging purely by the snapshots, it seems to have had a bizarre line-wrapping feature that compressed deep commenting threads into a one-letter-wide text column after about 6 or 7 nested replies. On the other hand, the commenting system of SSC is horrible. And corporations' products are always more Molochy and less personal than personal ventures. Most of the delta in the first case can be explained that substack, while a somewhat niche and fresh take on social media/aggregator sites hybrid, is a corporation. On this scale, ACX is lower than SSC, and SSC after 2014/2015/2016 is lower than SSC before and during 2014. ACX is decidely less personal than the blog, there is some magical quantity that I can't quite put my hand on, some hard-to-name variable that 2005-era personal blogs had close to 100% score on it and a generic facebook/instagram pages has close to 0% on. But since SSC is still available I have sort of assembled a secondhand archaeological understanding of the community based on the snapshots I saw. discovering the more culture-wary sides and history) since the NYT incident. I'm a latecomer to the community, knowing it as a generic "this guy discuess knowledge, statistics and the human mind" source around 2018-2019 and really only noticing it strongly (i.e. ![]()
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