Taaalk [Update: site now back up]

FailMore in another thread:

> Taaalk (https://taaalk.co/) is less focused around debate, and more around exploring topics:

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23742773). From the site:

> The home of public conversations

> What's this Taaalk website about?

> It's a place where people have conversations

> And other people get to read them

Quite nice, would be cool to be able to search. But really cool concept

Looks cool. Suggestion: Require people to request discussions from others to sign up/comment/participate. You could gain big traction by getting big names to do conversations and likely monetize by having sponsored conversations.

Major thing to avoid would be what happened to Quora where all the comments were gamed by people trying to resume pad.

"Thank you for your question, the history of privacy goes back millennia to Cleopatra's Royal guards... In summary, duckduckgo is a search engine focused on privacy"

Lame

I picked a conversation at random

https://taaalk.co/t/bitcoin-maxima-other-crypto-things

This started off with a question about a background image, and the answer had a lot of detail opening up many threads of possible conversations. This seems like something that happens pretty regularly, but also something that the format of linear text isn't well suited for. This is a problem for both essays and conversations.

There's a moment with a dozen possible interesting branches and the author or authors choose one direction to pursue. The other directions may be addressed later or may be forgotten and not picked up again.

I'm trying to imagine some branching structure, and how it might look in a UI that would "open" multiple threads and let readers and writers move through the text in their own direction.

Does that sound meaningful or possible to anyone else?