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Reddit is being credited with usenet style nested threads? the old is new again...
by jocoda 7y ago
Reddit is being credited with usenet style nested threads?
the old is new again...
- ProAm 7y ago“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again."
- MDWolinski 7y agoSame thought I had when I read the title, forums have been using nested threads for the longest time.
- buboard 7y agoi mean, hellooo, we are in a nested thread
- GaryNumanVevo 7y ago_echoes_ N E S T E D _echoes_
- hombre_fatal 7y agoWell, it's not surprising that Engadget would compare it to Reddit, one of the top 20 websites in the world that readers actually use in 2019, instead of a dead social platform that people don't use except maybe a handful of people still using it for piracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet#Decline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet#Decline Even nested-view on forums like vBulletin and phpbb was more or less worthless for various reasons, like how the software defaulted to a single-level linear view and nobody bothered to explicitly reply to individual posts. Also, linear view let you respond to any number of posts at a time which was superior for longer form discussion among multiple people, something that HN/Reddit can't really do.
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- buboard 7y agothere is nothing new on the internet since a long time, it's old ideas scaled up.
- sullyj3 7y agonobody's claiming Reddit invented the concept, it's just more salient to the average reader. are you seriously saying, if you were an Engadget editor, you would have said "change it to Usenet"?