[ThomPete]

Yeah I used to be a member there too, was an amazing community. Jaron Lanier used to hang out there plus a bunch of other cool people.

It had a very interesting commenting system which was non threaded. Instead you referenced the number of the post you were responding to.

It gave some very interesting dynamics in the conversation, something I have never experienced since and I have often thought about doing some exploration around the non-threaded discussion forum.

[SamReidHughes]

Non-threaded as in there being exactly one global stream of comments? Or were there separate threads, each of which was a linear stream within which comments reference each other by number? 4chan and such have the latter.

[ThomPete]

Separate threads and channels. But it also had some other interesting features in the HTML version based on picospan the underlying discussion forum software.