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Permalink Reply by Angela Evangelia on March 13, 2013 at 2:07am

I feel that I miss new input. Like Im only half involved ot something.

When I read a book I go from page to page like this 123456789 but here its like 25367432865,

its doing my head in.

Permalink Reply by matt.clerke on March 13, 2013 at 2:24am

Hi Angela,

    Think of the current structure as more of a tree than a thread. Image two branches of that tree both being written to at once, how would that look in a flat thread system? It becomes very difficult to track who is responding to what comment without having them explicitly state it. With the tree structure, this information is preserved without any extra effort from the commenters.

That's what I like about the tree system anyway.

Permalink Reply by Angela Evangelia on March 13, 2013 at 2:59am

 

Hi Matt

But I dont want to read two branches at once ,, I only want to read one branch : (

Can I can use my book analogy again? ...

When i read a book and maybe I need to  go back  to re read something on page 4 .. i dont suddenly find additional text that wasnt there before.

In a single thread you can still repy to a poster. It works ... : /

 

Permalink Reply by matt.clerke on March 13, 2013 at 6:45pm

In a single thread you can still repy to a poster

Sure you can... by putting @Angela before my text it means it is directed to Angela. The problem is that people are lazy and sometimes this step gets missed.

Right now, we are writing to a branch. You can easily track the flow of our conversation back to its root of my comment on your discussion. Imagine if I had to post this comment to the very end of the thread rather than just the end of the branch of conversation we are on. It would be rather difficult to find the specific post I was replying to.

For what it's worth, you can get the single threaded approach when commenting on blog posts, pictures, and videos.

Permalink Reply by Angela Evangelia on March 13, 2013 at 8:35pm

The blog post are good ... Thats the way it should be ....

Permalink Reply by SteveInCO on March 13, 2013 at 8:21pm

It becomes very difficult to track who is responding to what comment without having them explicitly state it.

That's what god made the quote function for.

When a tree thread gets to be pages and pages long, I *really* hate having to scan all the pages to see if someone perchance replied to something somewhere.

Permalink Reply by Angela Evangelia on March 13, 2013 at 8:34pm

 

Me too ... I find it exhausting really.

 

Permalink Reply by Simon Paynton on March 13, 2013 at 5:28am

What I do after I've been away for a few hours is go through the front page entries looking for discussions I'm interested in.  Keep clicking "More" until I get back to the last one I saw.  When I find something I want to see, I CTRL-click the entry so it opens up in a new tab.  Then afterwards I can close the tab and go back to the list, and it hasn't reset. 

Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on March 13, 2013 at 1:32pm

How the hell did you do that?!!! Like I said on the other thread, I tried four times to get a discussion on the board before finally giving up, and here you are, in no time at all!

THAT sends me a message, if ever there was one --

Permalink Reply by Angela Evangelia on March 13, 2013 at 2:59pm

 Pardon?

Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on March 13, 2013 at 3:23pm

Assuming that "Pardon?" was meant for me, I'm saying there must be a reason as to why none of my discussions never make it to the "What's New Today" section - the fact that I have submitted four, that languished for days in some kind of TA purgatory, while we only lightly touch on the idea of you starting one last night, and already, you have two on the board - there has to be a reason for that, I simply don't know what it is, but would certainly like to.

Permalink Reply by Simon Paynton on March 13, 2013 at 3:31pm

I think "What's New Today" depends on the number of page hits. 

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