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Yes, this non-linear idea seems very interesting. I have read several discussions on various boards with much hand-wringing about the best way of sorting commen

by nagvx 10y ago

Yes, this non-linear idea seems very interesting. I have read several discussions on various boards with much hand-wringing about the best way of sorting comments - by time, by votes, by user rep, by some sort of weighted average of the above? Suddenly things get rather complicated as people try to decide how the weights should be balanced. But this idea of showing multiple different feeds side-by-side is very refreshing. Two (or even three?) feeds with different weightings and (and relative sizes!) could provide a better balance than what we are used to. (As an aside, it would be entertaining to take it to an extreme - seeing the top voted comments also shows you the bottom voted, most controversial also shows least, etc. A sort of anti-echo-chamber measure.)

Houshalter 10y ago
I think Lesswrong's solution only works because they have a small community, and they have a lot of comment junkies that want to read every new comment. Reddit and HN also have new comment feeds (https://www.reddit.com/r/all/comments/ https://www.reddit.com/r/all/comments/ https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments), but I don't think anyone but bots read them. Granted they could be made more prominent like on Lesswrong.
- cousin_it 10y ago
  Many good subreddits are similar to LW in size and might benefit from a similar UI change.
- mos_basik 10y ago
  >reddit.com/r/<subreddit>/comments/ Thanks for posting that; I'd never seen it before. As my sister comment said, for smaller subs it could be quite useful for finding active discussions - like on /r/truefilm or something. People always say "sort Reddit threads by comment age if you want the 4chan experience" and that has some merit - but that only applies once you have chosen a thread to open. A subreddit-wide comment feed gives an idea of which threads are active without relying on the blackbox thread ranking algorithm Reddit provides.

by nagvx 10y ago

Houshalter 10y ago

I think Lesswrong's solution only works because they have a small community, and they have a lot of comment junkies that want to read every new comment. Reddit and HN also have new comment feeds (https://www.reddit.com/r/all/comments/ https://www.reddit.com/r/all/comments/ https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments), but I don't think anyone but bots read them. Granted they could be made more prominent like on Lesswrong.

cousin_it 10y ago
Many good subreddits are similar to LW in size and might benefit from a similar UI change.
mos_basik 10y ago
>reddit.com/r/<subreddit>/comments/ Thanks for posting that; I'd never seen it before. As my sister comment said, for smaller subs it could be quite useful for finding active discussions - like on /r/truefilm or something. People always say "sort Reddit threads by comment age if you want the 4chan experience" and that has some merit - but that only applies once you have chosen a thread to open. A subreddit-wide comment feed gives an idea of which threads are active without relying on the blackbox thread ranking algorithm Reddit provides.