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I loathe nested comments and vastly prefer inline quote previews and backlinks. Then again, I'm biased.
by moot 13y ago
I loathe nested comments and vastly prefer inline quote previews and backlinks.
Then again, I'm biased.
- hn_has_piqued 13y ago>Then again, I'm biased. That's an understatement. But seriously, I agree with everything you stand for in regards to how internet discussion should work. Flat discussion is vastly superior, even when weighing the negatives
- krapp 13y agoThe only time i've ever seen threading really work well is when it only includes the headers, like with email or newsreader clients, and there's a separate frame altogether for the text (which makes it in essence follow a flat style.) But threading the text as well just makes long discussions difficult to follow and unreadable as the margin starts to get cramped. Which on HN is apparently part of the reason they do it the way they do.
- GhotiFish 13y agomfw.
- br78 13y agoCan I ask if you have any views about voting and hierarchy display of comments? What sort of commentary culture that produces?
- mion 13y agoWe like quasiquotes and backticks around here.
- darkmighty 13y agoWell, they're not mutually exclusive, reddit has both a flat 'new' and 'top' comments -- new is 4chan-like and top is hn-like with an interesting strategy with fancy nonlinear time-decaying importance. But this is of course one of those cases where they decided to make a choice, and they clearly favor the "top" structure. Honestly I think they could have meshed the two better, though.