On Sunday, June 8, 2014, Martijn Hoekstra <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Martijn Hoekstra < > [email protected] <javascript:;>> > 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, Flow stores each discussion as a tree, with a Flow "Board" being a forest of discussions for precisely this reason. > 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. Hmm. I'm not convinced that there has ever been a successful/useful/good discussion system that encouraged sub-comment structured replies. In my experience they are unusable morrasses of confusion. Instead, a lightweight quoting tool achieves the specificity at the least complexity and greatest clarity for users. I could be convinced otherwise, but it'd need to be a fairly stunning design concept. J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. [email protected] | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
