Oops, sent too soon. More comments below.
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Martijn Hoekstra <martijnhoekstra(a)gmail.com>
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, 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.
It may be possible to create intuitive ways to display
change over time in a thread view -- if folks
have seen examples of
that, I'd love to see them.
If it's sturctured as a tree, you won't be able to catch all
context, ever.
It's
difficult to tell which post is being
responded to, who's responding to whom, the
responses don't thread well,
and it's not possible to rethread a discussion.
Indeed, following
the wiki model, it should be ok to make technical
mistakes, and those mistakes should be easily fixed by someone else. If you
mess up the graph in an edit, it should not only be possible to fix that
after the fact, but easy.
--Martijn
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