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The one thing that reddit and Hacker News lack is the ability to easily see new posts on an existing thread (though you can get this with a reddit gold subscrip
by u801e 8y ago
The one thing that reddit and Hacker News lack is the ability to easily see new posts on an existing thread (though you can get this with a reddit gold subscription or becoming a moderator). The other thing they lack is an index of comments (like you would see with a mail reader).
Those two features made something like usenet with a good news reader easier to use compared to reddit or Hacker News.
- StavrosK 8y agoReddit does have that, although I'm not sure how an index of comments would be useful... What would they be indexed by? I agree that Usenet is fantastic for discussion, too bad it fell out of popularity...
- u801e 8y ago> I'm not sure how an index of comments would be useful... What would they be indexed by? By index, I mean a threaded list of messages that one can scroll through without having the message body present. In an email/news client, you would typically see something like: Subject Some Author Date Re: Subject Another Author Date Re: Subject A third Author Date Re: Subject A fourth Author Date Re: Subject A fifth Author Date Re: Subject Some Author Date in one window pane. Then you could click on one of the the messages and the body would be displayed in another window pane. Scrolling through that index is much faster than having to scroll through a lot of comments on reddit or Hacker News. And finding a new message was simply looking for ones that were in bold font.
- StavrosK 8y agoAh I see, you mean a newsgroup-style tree. With comment collapsing, I never missed that, but to each their own.