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I think you're onto something! A retrospective history of science styled as an HN clone would be amazing, will any of you dare?
by severine 2y ago
I think you're onto something! A retrospective history of science styled as an HN clone would be amazing, will any of you dare?
- wizzwizz4 2y agoThis is difficult. It should look more like a DAG than a tree, but we don't have a good UI for DAG comment threads yet.
- LelouBil 2y agoInteresting idea ! That makes me think about a system where you can reply to multiple comments at once.
- magicalhippo 2y agoYou mean like email and usenet's in-reply-to[1][2]? Sure, not many, if any, clients handle an arbitrary list of message id's there, but it's clear[3] that's what it's for. [1]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc822#section-4.6.2 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc822#section-4.6.2 [2]: https://cr.yp.to/immhf/thread.html https://cr.yp.to/immhf/thread.html [3]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5322#section-3.6.4 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5322#section-3.6.4
- LelouBil 2y agoThanks for the links, I don't know anything about usenet beside the fact that it exists, and didn't even know it was possible for email too. I'll search for examples of UI used for many in-reply-to, it seems interesting.
- SamPatt 2y agoI'm intrigued - how would you envision the posts and comments working?
- severine 2y agoMagically? Jokes apart, it'd be something like Pythagoras posts a link to his theory, with threads going until a paradigm change prompts another link and thread, and so on, and then Newton, and Max Planck... you know, implementation details. I have much more imagination than skills.
- alexander2002 2y ago>I have much more imagination than skills. same!
- hackable_sand 2y agoHarness the compulsive debate potential of internet forums by socially crediting discourse graphs from their sources.