On Sunday, June 8, 2014, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoekstra@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Martijn Hoekstra < martijnhoekstra@gmail.com javascript:;> wrote:
Flow stores the comments as a structured tree
That seems a fundamental mistake. A discussion isn't a tree, it's a dag at best. It's possible for a single comment in a discussion to refer to zero or more earlier comments,
Flow stores each discussion as a tree, with a Flow "Board" being a forest of discussions for precisely this reason.
and it's also possible for a single comment to refer to part of an earlier comment, which means a comment isn't an indivisable node.
Hmm. I'm not convinced that there has ever been a successful/useful/good discussion system that encouraged sub-comment structured replies. In my experience they are unusable morrasses of confusion. Instead, a lightweight quoting tool achieves the specificity at the least complexity and greatest clarity for users.
I could be convinced otherwise, but it'd need to be a fairly stunning design concept.
J.