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No, no, no. I refuse to invest any hope in a forum that is not interested in doing properly nested comments. How are your comments systems any better than Disqu
by drivebyacct2 14y ago
No, no, no. I refuse to invest any hope in a forum that is not interested in doing properly nested comments. How are your comments systems any better than Disqus or (the superior in appearance and functionality) Livefyre?
- tipiirai 14y agoNested comments is something we actually decided not to implement. Look at this HN thread for example. It's very hard to follow and see what are the new ones. Sometimes I search for "minutes" to get entries that are within last hour. If you want to branch out from a reply that's a new topic. We'll make that easier on later versions but definitely not nested comments.
- lakshmivyas 14y agoI am not sure if nested comments are really necessary for a forum either. For example, I see a lot of hacker news threads link to other threads in the same post where a response has been provided (I see one in this post as well). However, I think user addressability (@xxx) is important in a flat forum.
- kmfrk 14y agoThis is basically what a forum is, though. Commenting services like reddit, HN, and Disqus obviously differ, but they are altogether different than forums. It's obviously still okay to dislike this structure, but that's what forums (bulletin boards) are basically about.
- tipiirai 14y agoI think you are seriously wrong about this. Nesting is a feature and many think it's a bad one.