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> Talk is small — about 300kb — and lightweight This makes me feel old. Is 300kb really considered small these days?
Not really, 300kb for a pwa seems sane but for just for a comment system? That seems incredible bloated.
Reddit has had embeddable comment threads for over two years. It was a feature I actually worked on nine years ago, but the standards weren't there at the time to make it work with voting. I know I'm super biased, but I still find Reddit comments the easiest to read and follow (HN is a pretty close second, especially after they added comment collapsing). Is it really just bad marketing it on Reddit's part that keeps…
HN is a pretty close second, especially after they added comment collapsing Isn't comment collapsing in HN the same as downvoting? I find this confusing - or maybe I just don't have enough karma for the actual downvote button.
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> This blog post feels like the documentation at MDN, tedious and unclear. This feels like an undeserved swipe to me. How many developers prepend their searches with "mdn" when they need info on browser APIs?
I personally hate MDN. I actually prefer W3Schools. I want straight to the point examples.
Here's a slightly off-topic dream about online comments: In an ideal comment system I believe that articles, comments and moderation events should come from three different, decentralized streams (like Atom) that the end user can subscribe to individually and that are joined at the end users client. That would would provide transparency to the moderation process, ability to comment anywhere, and it would allow modera…
I'd perhaps do most of my commenting in a private comment stream with 2 or 3 friends.
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To be honest, it is because reddit still feels... frivolous? It doesn't have the toxicity that it did a couple years ago, nor the shallowness of its nothing-but-cat-pictures reputation. But neither is it a good platform for gaining customers or revenue. It is a place to gain traffic, but traffic without revenue is not the goal for most organizations. Now, if reddit traffic converted, I'd look deeper at it - but when…
Far as I can tell, reddit functions best as a PR platform for businesses and corporations to communicate with their customers and fan-base. It's not the sort of place I'd go to for serious conversations about anything.
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To be honest, it is because reddit still feels... frivolous? It doesn't have the toxicity that it did a couple years ago, nor the shallowness of its nothing-but-cat-pictures reputation. But neither is it a good platform for gaining customers or revenue. It is a place to gain traffic, but traffic without revenue is not the goal for most organizations. Now, if reddit traffic converted, I'd look deeper at it - but when…
Far as I can tell, reddit functions best as a PR platform for businesses and corporations to communicate with their customers and fan-base. It's not the sort of place I'd go to for serious conversations about anything.
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Far as I can tell, reddit functions best as a PR platform for businesses and corporations to communicate with their customers and fan-base. It's not the sort of place I'd go to for serious conversations about anything.
you have no idea how wrong you are, to put it mildly. there are some absolutely fantastic subreddits with quality discussions and stronger moderation than the internet forum you're currently complaining on. check out r/askscience for one example.
This is how I knew I was getting old.
Reddit has had embeddable comment threads for over two years. It was a feature I actually worked on nine years ago, but the standards weren't there at the time to make it work with voting. I know I'm super biased, but I still find Reddit comments the easiest to read and follow (HN is a pretty close second, especially after they added comment collapsing). Is it really just bad marketing it on Reddit's part that keeps…
Reddit has had embeddable comment threads for over two years. It was a feature I actually worked on nine years ago, but the standards weren't there at the time to make it work with voting. I know I'm super biased, but I still find Reddit comments the easiest to read and follow (HN is a pretty close second, especially after they added comment collapsing). Is it really just bad marketing it on Reddit's part that keeps…
You guys seriously did a good thing with nested and collapsable comments. Reddit's comment structure remains by far the best on the internet. You should definitely be proud of that.
I'm trying to remember if it had the ability to filter comments below a threshold, though I'm thinking it did.