The key thing about Usenet and email is that the first-class entity was the individual message - on web forums, the first-class entity is the thread. On Usenet or email, a "thread" is something strung together on the fly from the surviving References: headers of whatever messages have made it as far as you. (This is why Gmane is a bit weird to use as a forum, even on a mailing list with no messages getting lost.)
Trees work in places like Reddit or LessWrong, and to some degree on Slashdot - though the latter lacks the ability to collapse a fruitless tree in the interface. Some ramblings on Usenet vs web forums: http://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/566555.html On 9 June 2014 07:42, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: > I see traditional email and newsgroup clients missing a bit from Krinkle's > list. Subthreading works perfectly fine in Thunderbird (but even in Outlook > Express!). Indenting is the one characteristic found in all wiki > conversations: subthreading can't be discarded based on gut feelings. > In my experience shepherding thousands of it.wiki conversations (mostly on > their own subpages), the biggest issue are offtopic and personal tangents, > hence the most important technical feature in wikitext is that I'm able to > easily tell apart, link and move subthreads. > > Nemo > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
