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An interesting model is the one found on 4chan (maybe other places too?). All the posts are sorted by timestamp, but you can add a link to one or more previous
by TrianguloY 2y ago
An interesting model is the one found on 4chan (maybe other places too?).
All the posts are sorted by timestamp, but you can add a link to one or more previous posts, meaning your are "replying" to it/them, and those posts get a footer with with all the replies as links. You can then scroll to check a discussion or click to see/jump between references.
I find threads useful under specific circumstances, but cites are way more useful (I'm looking at you, slack...)
- v3ss0n 2y agoYeah - thats really good model and best way to keep conversaions going. Also Zulip's model is very practical too.
- bheadmaster 2y ago4chan threads are basically a generalization of the classic (HN, Reddit, etc.) threads. Classic threads are just trees of replies, where each reply has exactly one parent and one or more children. By contrast, 4chan threads are directed graphs of posts, in which any post can reply to any other post by its number - even itself (hard to achieve, but not impossible). It is even possible to reply to someone in the future (which sometimes happen when people reference a future "get", in which some poster will get a "nice" post number, such as 99999). There are even some frontends that render 4chan threads as graphs in the browser. I forgot their names though.