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- I'm game for trying anything new, I mean, I even tried Google Wave. But the more I've used threaded discussions of any variety, the less I like them. I find precious few redeeming qualities, while threading tends to break crucial parts of discussion like reading and replying in deep, fundamental, unfixable ways. I have yet to discover a threaded discussion design that doesn't eventually make me hate it, and myself.
A part of me says this is software Darwinism in action: threaded discussion is ultimately too complex to survive on the public Internet.
forwardslash · 4378 days ago · link ·
I liked one of Jeff's comments on reddit: That's an odd sentiment since those two parts are at odds with each other. Having a flat structure (with optional context ala Twitter) allows each post to be voted on, and sorted in the list, independently. If you are a slave to the parent-child reply hierarchy, you could have the most brilliant upvoted post in the world, trapped way down deep in branch 5 of the tree where nobody can see it.> Combined with the ability for useful threads to bubble up to the top via voting, I think threading is an absolute necessity on a site like reddit.