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More chat than forum, with the exception that the comments stay on the Web instead of being hidden in the logs. Forums and chats do have a solution to too big
by BlueTemplar 4y ago
More chat than forum, with the exception that the comments stay on the Web instead of being hidden in the logs.
Forums and chats do have a solution to too big size : they can just split into others (or subforums) once the linear discussion becomes unmanageable.
- LunarAurora 4y agoYeah. More chat than forum, in the sense that people rarely venture to reply on what is older than a day (apart from Ask/Show HN; both hang a little longer) I don't get your solution. It seems to me that HN threads are already tree-like.
- BlueTemplar 4y agoYes, but they are a bit too easy to split, which means that a good chunk of comments end up getting ignored. I sometimes read the new ones by first reading all of them, and later manually scanning every comment newer than X hours, but it's tedious. I guess a system that would automatically hid old comments (except their immediate parent) might work ?