A Soothing Frontend for the Effective Altruism Forum

About

This is a frontend for the Effective Altruism Forum. It aims to present EA Forum posts in a way which I (Nuño Sempere) personally find soothing. It achieves that that goal at the cost of restricted functionality—like not being able to make or upvote comments and posts.

Usage

Frontpage

This forum frontend has a frontpage at forum.nunosempere.com/frontpage. It displays the latest posts in chronological order, and looks like this:

Recent comments

This forum frontend has a page showing the latest comments at forum.nunosempere.com/comments. It displays the latest comments in chronological order, together with their optional parent comment, and looks like this:

Posts

Like the EA forum, this frontend has an endpoint for posts at:

https://forum.nunosempere.com/posts/[post id]/[optional post slug]

An example post—chosen to be a link post so that you can see both the article and the comments—looks like this:

RSS feed

This frontend has an rss endpoint at forum.nunosempere.com/feed: it piggybacks off the ea.greaterwrong.com RSS feed, fetching and reprocessing it every five mins.

Further notes

• Clicking on an article's or on a comment's timestamp directs to their location on the original EA Forum. This is useful, for example, to go to the original forum to leave a comment.
• My personal usecase is just being subscribed via rss (using newsboat), and displaying forum posts which interest me in this new frontend.
• Other EA Forum alternatives known to me are ea.greaterwrong.com and eaforum.issarice.com.
• This frontend takes around half a second to load. The regular EA Forum takes around 5 seconds.
• Due to their low signal/noise ratio, I have excluded the following users from the recent comments page: Arturo Macias. This list of users may grow in the future
• Update 2023/09/29: Added author pages, e.g., here is mine.