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I have to say, having used newsgroups, forums, and reddit for years and years, I totally disagree - conversations by their nature are threaded, not linear - peo
by antihero 14y ago
I have to say, having used newsgroups, forums, and reddit for years and years, I totally disagree - conversations by their nature are threaded, not linear - people need to have the freedom to break off and discuss tangents without impacting the main thing.
With the quote feature you just end up with giant quote pyramids and impossible to track discussions.
That said, with Facebook it seems they have a) broken the chronology, which is insane, and b) not made it damned obvious that it's a threaded system, hence the confusion.
- staltz 14y agoGiant quote pyramids are a big mistake of old forum systems. But imagine quoting without quotes-in-quotes. Combine that with "click on quote" to see the post. BTW, HN also breaks chronology.
- aneth4 14y agoHN only breaks chronology on sister threads, where it doesn't matter. In 8 years (or whatever) of reading HN comment, I've never once had an issue with chronology of comments. If there were no threads, it would be such a mess, it wouldn't be worth reading.
- antihero 13y agoWell the chronology is following a branch :)