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And not much of value was lost. Those boards had terrible usability. IIRC not long ago you could only see one comment per page and had to click on every single
by simias 10y ago
And not much of value was lost. Those boards had terrible usability. IIRC not long ago you could only see one comment per page and had to click on every single comment to read the thread.
That changed a little while ago but you still have multi-pages for comments and it's hard to keep track of who replies to whom. They also have these weird signatures which are completely impossible to distinguish from the body of the comment unless the poster used a different color or something.
Not that the discussions were generally very insightful, mostly celebrity gossip and flamewars.
- emn13 10y agoNot a great loss, but it's amusing to read imdb's definition of "ample time" to backup anything of value.
- buyx 10y agoIMDB's been expiring messages all along, so there isn't much there to backup. After reading this announcment, I wanted to save the fanboy comments for Cloverfield (2008) back from when it was first released, since I regard it as a classic example of the phenomenon, and they are already long-gone.
- tyingq 10y ago>IIRC not long ago you could only see one comment per page and had to click on every single comment to read the thread That's the case on medium.com right now for comment replies. I was surprised to see how nested comments and replies work there. It's terrible.
- ryanplant-au 10y agoThat was a terrible default setting, but you've always been able to change it, or at least you have been since I started using it in 2003-ish. You're right, though, it was an extremely poorly-designed bit of forum software with some baffling choices.
- Markoff 10y agoyou are wrong, if you used flat thread settings you could see all comments at one screen at least in last ten years their forums were horrible, but usable with flat layout and there was none alternative anyway, so no point complaining