On 29/04/14 09:24, Michael Rogers wrote: > Hi all, > > I've never come across a good way to display threaded conversations on > a small screen. Have you? Please share. > > On a large screen, the best example I've come across is Reddit: clear > nesting, plus a parent link in every message in case the nesting gets > deep and the context isn't clear. But nesting is better suited to > conversations with a high branching factor than conversations that go > back and forth between a few participants. Do you know of any other > good examples?
I don't have a complete answer, but I suspect some distinction should be made about conversations that go off on their own tangents. Imagine a message is sent, and a few people all reply to that message "in parallel". These might all be in the same vein, and conversation naturally continues from them all as a group. Or one of them might be an interesting tangent that goes off on its own, and if interleaved with the original conversation will just get confusing. On a small screen, I'd hope that this case would somehow be detected quickly, and that tangential thread disappear away (with a little activity marker of some kind indicating where it forked off and how busy it is, pulsing with each new message, and also being a user-interface element that can be poked to switch to that thread). As to how to distinguish a tangent on a particular point from discussion continuing from a group of "parallel" replies? I'm not sure, but I think the issue may be largely semantic - needing understanding of the text being exchanged, or users doing something explicit or implicit to say "This is in reply to this but not that". > Cheers, > Michael ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/
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