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So you made me finally go look closely at a _chan board and I get your points now. TBH I see the greentext screenshots a lot and they usually trigger a dyslexi

So you made me finally go look closely at a _chan board and I get your points now. TBH I see the greentext screenshots a lot and they usually trigger a dyslexic response. But after playing a bit I totally agree the way they allow for rollover views of parent and grand parents while keeping the conversation flat & chronological is effective. Cross posting a comment to multiple parents totally breaks the tree/branch/leaf logic but I can see how useful it is tying similar tangents together and riffing feedback off of each other. TIL those boards are not just the raging dumpster fires of anarchy they get labeled as by us plain old normies. Thanks for expanding my horizon !

setr 6y ago
> TIL those boards are not just the raging dumpster fires of anarchy they get labeled as by us plain old normies I mean, they are, and I think it’s largely because of how effective the model is at enabling conversations (further enhanced by anonymity-by-default and low moderation). Twitter and Facebook threads/users of similar taste are utterly crippled by comparison, because conversations are really just announcements + virtue signaling. Even HN trees are similarly limited — half the conversations are 1-1 with no interjection. You couldn’t have that kind of mess existing here even if you wanted to