The parts about being able to see the structure of the thread at a glance and being able to quickly glance over a list of threads to see what’s interesting sound a lot like why I like Bungie.org’s WebBBS forums so much. At B.org I can say “This branch looks dumb” and immediately skip to the next one; at LW I often have to scroll through posts one at a time to find the end of a branch, and I often just give up.
Thanks; I’ll probably start using that. That can still “[leave] an interesting thread at the mercy of its ancestors”, though, which I don’t think WebBBS or (apparently) trn does.
The parts about being able to see the structure of the thread at a glance and being able to quickly glance over a list of threads to see what’s interesting sound a lot like why I like Bungie.org’s WebBBS forums so much. At B.org I can say “This branch looks dumb” and immediately skip to the next one; at LW I often have to scroll through posts one at a time to find the end of a branch, and I often just give up.
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Thanks; I’ll probably start using that. That can still “[leave] an interesting thread at the mercy of its ancestors”, though, which I don’t think WebBBS or (apparently) trn does.