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.
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.
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.
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?
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 Stuff on the top gets out of date.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.
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.