On May 9, 2013, at 9:51 AM, Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
My main complaint is that I'm not sure if indented
threading is the way to go; we know we end up with reallly deep conversation threads on
these things, and it gets hard to read a few levels in. Pre-collapsing already-read parts
of the thread should help a lot in common circumstances, but if you expand it you
don't want it esploding.
I've been thinking a lot about this and wrote up several ideas here, including my
corollary to Godwin's Law:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow_Portal/User_to_User_Discussions#Thread_D…
Currently, I'm not restricting depth but I think we should after 4 levels.
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