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I had no idea either. And then I clicked on "What do you like about Reddit?" and it said it ended in August 2012 which had me even more confused. But after cli

I had no idea either. And then I clicked on "What do you like about Reddit?" and it said it ended in August 2012 which had me even more confused. But after clicking around I worked it out. It was an elitist (and far less useful) version of Quora. Or was it simply a polished discussion board. Then I clicked the About Branch button and realised it was more about the Twitter integration than anything. IMHO: Try and clarify what this is on the home page. "A new way to talk to each other." is contrived, meaningless and simply not true. It's not new, it's better.

temiri 14y ago
I don't understand the "Branch is an elitist Quora" analogy (which is one that I've heard before). Quora is for monologues. Branch is for dialogues.
- egeozcan 14y ago
  Sorry but I see dialogues more often under the answers at Quora than I see at Branch(es?)
  - temiri 14y ago
    That may be true. But that's not how the services are designed. Quora gives your full attention to an answer. It collapses the comments. It lets you downvote unpopular opinions. Branch limits the most that anyone can say at a time (to something like 800 characters--which is enough for an explanation but not enough for a tirade). And it gives equal weight to each comment that someone makes.
mikeleeorg 14y ago
I'm going to give them a bit of free user testing and do my best to summarize what I think they are about, now that I'm at their "Welcome to Branch!" screen: They give you a way to publish comments for any public URL on the web. And those comments live on their site in a comment thread they call a "branch." I wonder how close I am. Clicking the "Let's get started" button now... Hmm, I think I was pretty close. Branches, or comment threads, can be closed. Interesting. So they added a life span to a discussion, vs keeping it open for more comments. I wonder why. To preserve the quality of the initial discussion? Hmm.

temiri 14y ago

I don't understand the "Branch is an elitist Quora" analogy (which is one that I've heard before). Quora is for monologues. Branch is for dialogues.

egeozcan 14y ago
Sorry but I see dialogues more often under the answers at Quora than I see at Branch(es?)
- temiri 14y ago
  That may be true. But that's not how the services are designed. Quora gives your full attention to an answer. It collapses the comments. It lets you downvote unpopular opinions. Branch limits the most that anyone can say at a time (to something like 800 characters--which is enough for an explanation but not enough for a tirade). And it gives equal weight to each comment that someone makes.

mikeleeorg 14y ago

I'm going to give them a bit of free user testing and do my best to summarize what I think they are about, now that I'm at their "Welcome to Branch!" screen: They give you a way to publish comments for any public URL on the web. And those comments live on their site in a comment thread they call a "branch." I wonder how close I am. Clicking the "Let's get started" button now... Hmm, I think I was pretty close. Branches, or comment threads, can be closed. Interesting. So they added a life span to a discussion, vs keeping it open for more comments. I wonder why. To preserve the quality of the initial discussion? Hmm.