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?
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.
Risker/Anne