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.org> wrote:

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_Depth_Models

        Currently, I'm not restricting depth but I think we should after 4 levels.

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