[gelatocar]

This is really interesting, one question that comes to mind is whether popular discussions will become stressful for the original two people as others create new threads off certain comments. It seems that you would either have to ignore those new threads or inevitably end up having to keep track of a potentially deeply branching, difficult to follow discussion - having to make the same points in parallel to multiple people.

Some way to fan in the conversation and allow multiple participants as points converge could solve this but it sounds like it would be rather complex to get right.

[davidschaengold]

Thanks for this question. It's one we've given some thought to. You're absolutely right that the ability to make new threads allows for the possibility of heavily branched conversations, which could be tricky to follow in their entirety.

Our thinking about this was that we want to make it as easy as possible to follow a conversation between two people, however long and involved the conversation gets. So, while conversations can branch endlessly, it's always easy to follow what any two people are saying to each other.

In the longer term, we might also add some features around seeing an overall conversation branching structure, but it's not on the short-term roadmap.