“EA Forum update (Oct 2024)” by Sarah Cheng

It's been a few months since our last update. In addition to preparing for a big Giving Season event, here are some of the things we’ve been up to. Site improvements Notifications re-redesign After evaluating the feedback we received from our notifications redesign earlier this year, we decided to overhaul the UI again. We removed the standalone notifications page and improved the notification icon dropdown menu, so that it stays open on click. As a reminder, there are many options for customizing your notifications via your account settings page. Advanced search syntax We’ve started adding support for search operators in the search text box. Right now you can use the “user” operator to filter by author, and the “topic” operator to filter by topic, though these will currently only do exact matches and are case-sensitive. Note that there is already a topic filter on the left side, if that [...] ---Outline:(00:15) Site improvements(00:18) Notifications re-redesign(00:55) Advanced search syntax(01:39) Decreased karma threshold for adding/editing topics(02:18) Footnotes on mobile open in a floating box(02:43) Changing post/comment types retains your drafted text(03:05) Animal Welfare vs Global Health Debate Week(03:42) Team updates(05:31) Other updates(06:40) Share your feedbackThe original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration. The original text contained 4 images which were described by AI. --- First published: October 24th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/645ZrezNDYTDhd2RC/ea-forum-update-oct-2024 --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.