On Sunday, June 8, 2014, Martijn Hoekstra <martijnhoekstra(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Martijn Hoekstra <
martijnhoekstra(a)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.
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