On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Marc A. Pelletier <marc(a)uberbox.org>
wrote:
Indentation is a crappy workaround for when your
communication system
does not support a sane threading model - it isn't a threading model or
a substitute for one.
Err, what's the threading model in Flow's UI? Or Facebook, phpbb, and so
on, or whatever other site you were referring to that knitting grandmothers
use? Can you really call not having any (user-visible) threading model a
threading model?
From what I've seen of those types of discussions,
people have to either
explicitly refer back to whatever they're replying to
(e.g. Twitter tries
to, and doesn't very well from what I've seen), quote whatever they're
replying to (e.g. phpbb, email (especially how Gmail renders it)), and/or
just deal with having to dig through an undifferentiated pile of replies to
find the ones that might be replying to the post they're interested in
(phpbb, Facebook).