On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
On 17 March 2015 at 10:49, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjorsch@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
On 17 March 2015 at 09:45, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjorsch@wikimedia.org
wrote:
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Ricordisamoa < ricordisamoa@openmailbox.org> wrote:
Software cannot understand which post a message replies to.
It can, and more easily than with raw wikitext, as long as the
correct
"reply" button is used, i.e. if people actually click reply instead
of
using the already-there box for creating a new "top-level" post in
the
topic.
The software can tell, but visually it is nearly impossible to
determine
which message is being responded to when everything has essentially the same indent level.
Granted, but that's because the output format is poor rather than the software being unable to tell.
Thank you, Brad. Is the output format not determined by the parameters in the software?
The software knows the reply structure, but when outputting it ignores that structure beyond the maximum depth.
It just strikes me as weird that the software that we keep being told will improve communication and collaboration is deliberately designed in such a way that it is difficult for the human users (as opposed to the software) to be able to immediately discern who is responding to whom.
A summary of their rationale seems to be at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow/User_to_User_Discussions#Thread_Depth_Mo.... I think I'll refrain from commenting on it.