Welcome to DiscDAG

#1

Post by mr_tyzic » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 12:56 AM UTC

Welcome to DiscDAG
solipsys.co.uk

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#2

Post by dictatorsunion » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 1:05 AM UTC

Amazing Idea！

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#3

Post by alexmingoia » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 1:48 AM UTC

Email could work like this. Threading emails in a chronological list is just a trend in clients. There’s no reason clients couldn’t do it like this, or display emails like IM software threaded by author and sorted by last message (I’ve been searching my entire life for an email client to thread IM-style).

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Post by aidenn0 » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 2:34 AM UTC

alexmingoia wrote: post #3

Email could work like this. Threading emails in a chronological list is just a trend in clients. There’s no reason clients couldn’t do it like this, or display emails like IM software threaded by author and sorted by last message (I’ve been searching my entire life for an email client to thread IM-style).

Outlook breaks e-mail threading. It's really quite annoying. Forget "e-mail clients could do this" most e-mail clients written prior to 2000 did do this, and many after do as well.

I think part of the point of TFA is that the fact that you don't control if other people top-post or use crummy clients means you, in practice, can't get this with e-mail, even though you theoretically could.

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Post by fphhotchips » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 3:27 AM UTC

This looks/feels an awful lot like Google Wave did 10 years ago. At least conceptually.

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Post by harrylepotter » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 4:16 AM UTC

I like what this explores but it certainly seems to favor semi-continuous threads of conversation rather than thousands of disparate discussions that you'd normally have on social media. Getting a graph with a friendly-UX for the latter would be quite difficult to achieve.

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Post by Waterluvian » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 4:43 AM UTC

Somewhat related: this is how the mysterious texts in The Outer Wilds are all written. They're arcs with many branching threads.

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Post by ColinWright » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 7:54 AM UTC

harrylepotter wrote: post #6

I like what this explores but it certainly seems to favor semi-continuous threads of conversation rather than thousands of disparate discussions that you'd normally have on social media. Getting a graph with a friendly-UX for the latter would be quite difficult to achieve.

This was born of frustration with email systems. So many now effectively force you to "top-post", so in an email with three or four questions you tend to get (a) only one answered, and (b) some text with no context.

I've always favoured in-line replies, but most email clients actively work against that, and people are just generally too lazy to do the trimming. I wrote about this some time ago[0].

So yes, this is intended for a single conversation, like a single email thread. Each different discussion would get a different discussion, if you see what I mean.

[0] https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/WhyTopPostingHasWon.html?td07...

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#9

Post by j88439h84 » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 7:11 AM UTC

It will get too wide, that's why HN and Reddit do it like they do.

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#10

Post by classified » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 7:15 AM UTC

While the diagnosis is obviously correct, this proposed cure will never take except with OCD-ridden hair splitters (and there it won't be necessary). Why? Because people would have to burn a glucose molecule for activating a brain cell. That will never happen.