On 19/03/15 01:42, Danny Horn wrote:
Brad: unfortunately, it's really hard to tell very
much from a conversation
with messages like "3: Post C: reply to Post A". You could do that with the
old model, the new model or the perfect magic Nobel-Prize-winning
discussion threading still to be discovered, and it would probably look
like nonsense in all three.
We've tried in our testing to pretend that we're having real conversations,
so we could see whether there's any logical way to get to eight levels of
nested threading. It's not easy to organize make-believe conversations, but
if you want to start a thread, I'd be happy to fire up a few sockpuppets
and pretend to talk about something with you.
I'm a little confused. Didn't LQT already solve this problem? Why not
just nest/thread things the same way it does, or how well-formatted
wikitext conversations in general do? That seemed to work fine; the
issues with LQT lay elsewhere, and the issue with wikitext really just
seems to be it all needs to be done manually and users often don't get
it right as a result, hence a good chunk of why we're trying to replace
it in the first place.
-I