3 ms·
That’s where the UI affordances come in, for instance a button on each node to hide/show all comments that are descendants of that node.
by basil-rash 2y ago
That’s where the UI affordances come in, for instance a button on each node to hide/show all comments that are descendants of that node.
- stavros 2y agoSo a tree, but worse.
- barbarr 2y ago4chan threads are more like DAGs
- krapp 2y agoThe graph of 4chan threads are definitely cyclical, since they can include back-references.
- basil-rash 2y agoTo be cyclical they’d need to have elements in reply to a post made after they were created. Including back references is a way of adding more parents, not children.
- philosopher1234 2y agoYou can reference posts that haven’t happened yet
- basil-rash 2y agoYou are referring to providing a sequential post ID past the current latest? That is more of a quirk of their naming convention than a product feature. UUID's, for instance, would not support this, and checks could be made in either case to prevent it.
- basil-rash 2y agoWhat makes you say it’s worse?
- stavros 2y agoThe underlying conceptual structure is still a tree, but now you have to unfold it into a line, with one reply potentially having nothing to do with the one before it (because they're on very different branches).
- basil-rash 2y agoNo, the underlying structure is a DAG. I've already stated this, and that heavy UI affordances should be made to support ease of interaction with this model.