On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:05 AM, James Forrester <jforrester(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
On 9 June 2014 02:30, Martijn Hoekstra
<martijnhoekstra(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 8:22 AM, James Forrester <
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> 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.
That takes care of the issues of replying to one comment (a new node in
an
existing tree), zero comments (a new root node),
but not multiple
comments
(which would break the tree).
Really?
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