[endisneigh]

Over time I’m starting to dislike threaded comments. I kind of wish everything was a single thread with numbers and people could reply to specific numbered comments.

Then if you’d like you could just view said thread as a tree but it’s still a single threaded comment thread.

My problem with trees is that unless expanded and then flattened finding the newest relevant comments is more trouble than it’s worth.

[Otek]

I have to say I strongly disagree with this take. I hate it every time that I have to go through a thread that’s just comment under comment. It’s so hard to keep up with multiple conversations going around.

[DavidPeiffer]

I wonder if a threaded discussion where the parent being responded to is always visible as you scroll would be a workable and usable interface? I get turned around sometimes if there are dozens of replies to a comment in a threaded discussion, especially when I get to the grandchild or great grandchild comment level.

It would be analogous to when people quote entire paragraphs in a forum post to add their 1 sentence reply (which always bothered me for reasons I've never come to terms with). Once I found reddit, I really appreciated the threaded discussion.

[endisneigh]

That’s a fair take. I suppose it depends on what you prioritize. Even in this post it’s difficult to see the most latest comment unless you read and expand all of them.

After a few hundred I personally don’t bother. great example is the musk Twitter thread. Good luck finding the globally newest comment.

[Otek]

It's probably hard for me to relate with your problem, because I'm literally never interested in most recents comments. What is your "usecase" in reading newest comments?

[endisneigh]

I mean, the same reason why you'd want the newest of anything. Stuff on the top gets out of date. Even in the context of a comment thread, I'd want the latest comment in the thread, etc.

Not to mention with threads you waste time reading things over and over again.

[Khoth]

I don't want the global newest comment, but I do want the similar "comments newly added since I read the comments a few hours ago"