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by kalid 5480 days ago
Wow, awesome feedback, you must be in my head :).

Yes, the idea was to focus on answers (what worked?) and then perhaps draw out the common questions (what is a good analogy for xyz?). For example, colorized equations seem to be an awesome response to the unasked "Help me get a plain English description of this equation."

1) Upvoting commets should definitely be added, thanks

2) Duplicate posts should be linked and combined. From initial usage, duplicates emerged. Someone wrote an analogy for understanding why negative times negative is positive and I made a new insight with my own thoughts. Ideally all such insights are grouped and the top ones bubble up.

I think integration with existing sites is the next big step :). I have some articles which are fairly popular and want to add an aha widget to them (similar to disqus) where people can share and vote on the insights that helped. Currently this is scattered in the comments on the article and difficult to parse. Once I stabilize this I'd love to open it up.

I really appreciate the thoughtful feedback here! My mind is buzzing thinking of possibilities :).