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> Each headline being the suvject being an email with all the comments being the replies. As in Gmail?

by gokhan 14y ago

cookingrobot 14y ago
But when you open a message with lots of replies, there's no structure, and you can't reply to one person's comment (like I'm replying to your comment here). This would be messy in gmail.
- pyre 14y ago
  > you can't reply to one person's comment You can, but it doesn't maintain proper threading. It just groups them all together and sorts by date.
- Kerrick 14y ago
  As in Google Groups?
  - samstave 14y ago
    You think that google groups is an analogous email client?
    - Kerrick 14y ago
      No, but Google Groups brings the innovations mentioned above to email lists, so it's an analogous comparison.
samstave 14y ago
Do you use reddit? As cookingrobot says, gmails threading is one dimensional and super clunky when you have lots of replies. It auto collapses to far so you can't easily reply to a particular message in the thread. Reddit has the best comment threading system of any site online. Quora is near the worst. HN is just slightly frustrating.
- Kiro 14y ago
  I thought reddit and HN were using the same system. What's the difference?
  - andrewflnr 14y ago
    Collapsing threads, for one thing.
    - wisty 14y ago
      It's like, one line of javascript different (the equivalent of if score < threshold: thread.collapse())
      - andrewflnr 14y ago
        I don't care about the code. Collapsing is a significant change in UX.
        samstave 14y ago
        EXACTLY! No one seems to get this, not HN, not Quora, Digg (though that doesn't matter any longer...) Its about increasing the information consumption rate and navigation rate. Collapsing is critical to navigating threads with thousands of comments, even tens of comments! Any UX designer who does not see this, is, in my book, worthless.
  - Samuel_Michon 14y ago
    Hacker News is written in Arc, a dialect of Lisp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) Reddit used be written in Lisp, but they switched to Python early on: http://blog.reddit.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html http://blog.reddit.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html I do agree that they look alike, Hacker News was inspired by Reddit.
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> Each headline being the suvject being an email with all the comments being the replies. As in Gmail?

by gokhan 14y ago

> Each headline being the suvject being an email with all the comments being the replies. As in Gmail?

But when you open a message with lots of replies, there's no structure, and you can't reply to one person's comment (like I'm replying to your comment here). This would be messy in gmail.

pyre 14y ago
> you can't reply to one person's comment You can, but it doesn't maintain proper threading. It just groups them all together and sorts by date.
Kerrick 14y ago
As in Google Groups?
- samstave 14y ago
  You think that google groups is an analogous email client?
  - Kerrick 14y ago
    No, but Google Groups brings the innovations mentioned above to email lists, so it's an analogous comparison.

samstave 14y ago

Do you use reddit? As cookingrobot says, gmails threading is one dimensional and super clunky when you have lots of replies. It auto collapses to far so you can't easily reply to a particular message in the thread. Reddit has the best comment threading system of any site online. Quora is near the worst. HN is just slightly frustrating.

Kiro 14y ago
I thought reddit and HN were using the same system. What's the difference?
- andrewflnr 14y ago
  Collapsing threads, for one thing.
  - wisty 14y ago
    It's like, one line of javascript different (the equivalent of if score < threshold: thread.collapse())
    - andrewflnr 14y ago
      I don't care about the code. Collapsing is a significant change in UX.
      - samstave 14y ago
        EXACTLY! No one seems to get this, not HN, not Quora, Digg (though that doesn't matter any longer...) Its about increasing the information consumption rate and navigation rate. Collapsing is critical to navigating threads with thousands of comments, even tens of comments! Any UX designer who does not see this, is, in my book, worthless.
- Samuel_Michon 14y ago
  Hacker News is written in Arc, a dialect of Lisp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) Reddit used be written in Lisp, but they switched to Python early on: http://blog.reddit.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html http://blog.reddit.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html I do agree that they look alike, Hacker News was inspired by Reddit.
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