Oops, sent too soon. More comments below.
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Martijn Hoekstra <[email protected]> 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 > _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
