newsgroup web viewer

[Walter Bright]

On 11/17/2011 9:02 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> Walter Bright Wrote:
>> 1. compact, threaded view
>
> You have to acknowledge that a lot of people don't see this as
> newsgroups getting it right.
>
> I'm completely opposed to it. (recursive*) Threaded views aren't just suboptimal.
> They are a *bad* thing. It was progress to ditch that misfeature, and it pains
> me that so many people want it anyway.


I am often involved simultaneously in dozens of threaded conversations. How you 
can possibly deal with that using a flat, chronological sort on all the messages 
is beyond my comprehension.

Even Digg gave up on that and went to a threaded view.

I also use a threaded view of my email messages.