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Web Discussions: Flat by Design
- neotek 13y agoI far prefer threaded discussions to flat discussions. The ability to hide child comments on a top-level comment is a godsend for wading through lengthy threads (so much so that I made a small Chrome extension to automatically hide child comments on HN by default) and threaded discussions force each reply to be a reply to a specific comment which I generally find makes replies more relevant to the topic at hand.
- jonah 13y agoI second that preference. I'm not the only one. The new owners of a forum I was a member of switched from threaded to flat forum software and the majority of the regulars left and started their own site with the old software. It's grown continually since.