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You can now subscribe to be notified when posts are added to a sequence. You can see more details in GitHub here.
We’ve also made it a bit easier to create and edit sequences, including allowing users to delete sequences they’ve made.
I've been thinking a bit about how to improve sequences, so I'd be curious to hear:
My apologies for the inconvenience, and thanks for flagging this! Unfortunately I'm unable to reproduce the issue. Could you provide some more details, such as what browsers/devices you see this on? Does it persist when you refresh? Are you only seeing this when logged in, or have you encountered this while logged out?
Users can directly edit wiki pages once they have gotten to 10 karma by using the site. I don't believe this list is actively maintained - you can see in the edit history that the last addition was in 2022.
We’ve updated our new user onboarding flow! You can see more details in GitHub here.
In addition to making it way prettier, we’re trying out adding some optional steps, including:
I hope that these additional optional steps help new users get more out of the Forum. We will continue to iterate on this flow based on usage and feedback - feel free to reply to this quick take with your thoughts!
New: “card view” for frontpage posts
We’re testing out a new “card view” for the main post list on the home page. You can toggle the layout by clicking the dropdown circled in red below. You can see more details in GitHub here.
Let us know what you think! :)