I would agree. On a high-traffic discourse-based forum I peruse, both the automatically updating thread pages and the "soandso is typing…" indicators make for p

I would agree. On a high-traffic discourse-based forum I peruse, both the automatically updating thread pages and the "soandso is typing…" indicators make for posts that are short, IM-like, and generally more combative. The endless scroll is a problem too. Because nobody wants to scroll through n-hundred posts, you also end up with the same handful of posts being re-made ad infinitum. Old paged style forums suffered from this to some extent but pages being bite-sized lended to more people reading the whole thread.