Should we restrict depth? Perhaps, it's better to limit the number of levels expanded at one time (when the user presses "expand" button). LiveJournal is very uncomfortable in this case: after you click "expand" it expands all inner conversations at every level.
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Brandon Harris bharris@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On May 9, 2013, at 9:51 AM, Brion Vibber bvibber@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_De...
Currently, I'm not restricting depth but I think we should after 4
levels.
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