Threading? That’s one thing we are rather against.
Two months ago I opened the topic:
I was hoping to steer the conversation to improving Discourse. However, it seems almost weekly a new topic derail pops up, longing for threaded conversation over flat conversation.
This brings me up to the is the point of this topic, I would like to have a canonical spot to discuss the merits of threaded vs flat discussion. A place we can point people when they say, “OH MY this is not threaded”
To kick this off, this is how I see it.
Threaded systems are …
I’ve tried to get it to crash as before, and it no longer does so! Nice one, thank you.
However it is still horribly slow to load posts at the end of a page.
And of course the UI massively fails POLA (eg the replies dropdown), the tons of white space mean you are scrolling the whole time, and the whole thing is painful and appears to be predicated on design decisions that are bound to drive me (and others, probably) away. But none of those are programming prioblems per se.
It’s like a summer 2013 'nam flashback!
(It does seem that 90% of the experience from change is based on expectations from “the old way”. I’ve seen this transition be very hard, and I’ve seen it be easy, and the common thread is what people were expecting.)
