On 15-03-17 10:56 AM, Risker wrote:
It just strikes me as weird that the software that we
keep being told will
improve communication and collaboration is deliberately designed in such a
way that it is difficult for the human users (as opposed to the software)
to be able to immediately discern who is responding to whom.
[...] that it is difficuly for [a very small subset of] human users
[used to a different, baroque system] to be able to [...]
I see, day in and day out, literally thouands upon thousands of fora on
Internet where millions of people from grandmothers sharing their latest
knitting tricks to software developers manage to communicate effectively
and figure out who is talking despite the lack of indentation pushing
everything in small boxes to the right margin, and without the ability
(or need!) to work around the flaws of that system with horrid hacks
like manual outdents.
Indentation is a crappy workaround for when your communication system
does not support a sane threading model - it isn't a threading model or
a substitute for one.
-- Marc