Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
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A few people have been mentioning recently that some of the discussions can be difficult to follow. Earlier in the year a second option became available. Now we have the choice of:
Threaded - as it is now, where people can reply to other people's comments at any point in the discussion. The benefit of this is that you can reply to specific points in a discussion. The downside - and it's a significant one - is that it can be difficult to follow discussions because latest replies can appear at any point in the discussion.
Flat - in flat discussions latest replies always get added to the end of a discussion. Upside - easy to follow if you only dip in occasionally. Downside - you can't reply to specific points that other have made - though you can do this by quoting what someone else has said.
If we change to flat, it would mean that all the old discussions get flattened too. This would mean that it could be quite tough to follow these old conversations because the links between replies, previously given by physical location, will be broken.
My sense is that the older conversations are probably less frequently visited and we shoudl give flat a go. We can always put thing sback as they were.
Anyone else have a view?
Threaded - as it is now, where people can reply to other people's comments at any point in the discussion. The benefit of this is that you can reply to specific points in a discussion. The downside - and it's a significant one - is that it can be difficult to follow discussions because latest replies can appear at any point in the discussion.
Flat - in flat discussions latest replies always get added to the end of a discussion. Upside - easy to follow if you only dip in occasionally. Downside - you can't reply to specific points that other have made - though you can do this by quoting what someone else has said.
If we change to flat, it would mean that all the old discussions get flattened too. This would mean that it could be quite tough to follow these old conversations because the links between replies, previously given by physical location, will be broken.
My sense is that the older conversations are probably less frequently visited and we shoudl give flat a go. We can always put thing sback as they were.
Anyone else have a view?
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by james walsh on
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Flat - seems the way to go for now Hugh
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Flat.
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Permalink Reply by PeterPiper on
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Threaded as it is now. Sorry to go against the current tide, but I think the perspective of being able to reply to specific comments makes more sense, and after all, it is marked as such. In a long conversation, one would always be ficking backwards to see the previous comments, and if someone had commented more than once it could become rather confusing. Leave it as it is please. IMO the way it is now mirrors a 3 or 4 way conversation more accurately, doesn't it?
As the adage goes, "if it isn't broken, don't fix it" beware of the law of unintended consequences.
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Permalink Reply by alistairj on
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I got half way through a reply suggesting trying flat when I managed to convince myself that threaded was probably better in some circumstances, particularly old discussions. Both have their benefits - the best option would be for ning to make both available for individual selection as some other sites do eg. Unthreaded | Threaded.
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That's a score of four each.
I have the casting vote because i hold the current meldrew prize.
So it's a win for FLAT. Thanks for all taking part.
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Permalink Reply by OneWomanAndHerDog on
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I tend towards threaded - it seems a more evolved format than flat to me. But either way I shalln't lose sleep over it.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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It struck me to wonder which options most closely resembles a real-world conversation and whether that matters.
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Permalink Reply by Stuart on
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Prefer threaded - but is just me who finds that their threaded comments (at least when they're the 3rd or later comment in a thread) don't always appear under the comment they've just commented on but further down?
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Permalink Reply by rahman on
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I would vote for FLAT, I find the current format a little difficult to follow. When you respond to a threaded, ir doesnt always appear exactly where you'd like anyway, so still doesnt read perfectly. At least with flat, you can quote people if responding to a particular comment and it seems like a better idea for comments to appear in the order that people contributed too.
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