On forum tree threading

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Mar 24 12:52:08 PDT 2016


On 3/24/2016 8:45 AM, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> That said, I think modern forum software like Discourse strike a good balance
> with linear threads. One key feature being the ability to spawn off a new thread
> from an existing one. This actually fixes two issues at once. One is it actually
> makes general thread size smaller, making it easier to follow a whole thread
> linearly. Second it features built-in support to creating an new topic that
> spawns from a previous discussion. In NNTP you can rename the title, but it's a
> bit of hack, different clients handle it differently, etc.

DFeed handles that rather well. See this thread as a fine example:

   http://forum.dlang.org/post/nd1gaq$1o1g$1@digitalmars.com

You may argue that there are better ways to present this, but it's pretty clear 
that NNTP is not holding this back.


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