On 9 June 2014 02:30, Martijn Hoekstra <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 8:22 AM, James Forrester <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> > 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.
>
> That takes care of the issues of replying to one comment (a new node in an
> existing tree), zero comments (a new root node), but not multiple comments
> (which would break the tree).

Really?

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James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

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