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I love to think back on the early social web and consider how much we got right, particularly with forums. Presence and personality via avatars went a long way

I love to think back on the early social web and consider how much we got right, particularly with forums. Presence and personality via avatars went a long way to feeling like a community in an era when the masses were still figuring out how to do that via technology. I still find chronologically ordered, flat discussion threads to be far superior to nested and vote ordered discussions.

Andrew_nenakhov 6y ago
> I still find chronologically ordered, flat discussion threads to be far superior to nested and vote ordered discussions Yes, and not in the least because one can answer/reference multiple messages in one post, thus bringing different conversation 'branches' back together. It also provides a nice chronological order to follow the whole discussions, which is hard in nested discussions. However, flat discussions have limits: once you have hundreds of participants, it becomes nearly impossible to follow. I estimate that the limit to more or less comfortably follow flat discussion is ~50 posts/day, or 15-30 more or less active posters.