Comment 58592

By Pxtl (registered) - website | Posted January 28, 2011 at 13:32:44 in reply to Comment 58578

This is the problem. Sites that have threaded comments end up with a myriad of tools to manage tracking replies and re-sorting and re-jiggering the commentary.

As a programmer, I can totally see the appeal of wanting a formalized solution to the @suchandsuch convention that most flat commentary systems use, but threaded, imho, creates more problems than it solves unless you're willing to put in the terriffic amount of work it takes to put it all together.

Even old hands at nested commentary like Reddit and Slashdot have a lot of warts in their systems.

Perhaps a flat view that includes a brief header over replies that includes the name and a truncated expandable version of the parent post would work, duct-taping the posts together without the header if the child is chronologically adjascent to the parent... but that would be a fair bit of UI work.

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