Nod, yeah I hadn’t thought through all the implications and maybe this is just crazy.
But, the sorts of thing I’m imagining:
comments have optional titles, you can basically upgrade anything into a post easily
i.e. the line between a top-level critical-comment, and EffortReply, and a Scott Alexander level “Contra So-and-So on Such and Such” was more about how much effort you put in?
many comments are heavily context dependent, but, if you choose to reply to something and want to put the effort into it being a standalone piece, you aren’t punished for not having broken out and written a top-level post.
I’d definitely want us to have way better UI for contextualizing things than twitter has (“how do?” is an open question)
I’m not sure about the UI of “what things are sans serif vs serif?” (and otherwise feeling “fancy” vs “off-the-cuff.”). One option is basically “fancy serifs or no?” is a setting.
I think it could be good to build post-level replies, where, when you get to the comment section, the post-item (i.e. just the height of like 3 lines of a comment) is sorted in the comment section by the karma of the post. So that you don’t have to choose between writing a response in a comment or in a post, but can instead do both in one motion.
agreed, the fundamental “self-recursive” model of twitter feels more complete. twitter’s UI of quickly understanding context is abysmal. fun fact, everything on Reddit is also a single data model “Post”. posts/comments are just rendered differently
Nod, yeah I hadn’t thought through all the implications and maybe this is just crazy.
But, the sorts of thing I’m imagining:
comments have optional titles, you can basically upgrade anything into a post easily
i.e. the line between a top-level critical-comment, and EffortReply, and a Scott Alexander level “Contra So-and-So on Such and Such” was more about how much effort you put in?
many comments are heavily context dependent, but, if you choose to reply to something and want to put the effort into it being a standalone piece, you aren’t punished for not having broken out and written a top-level post.
I’d definitely want us to have way better UI for contextualizing things than twitter has (“how do?” is an open question)
I’m not sure about the UI of “what things are sans serif vs serif?” (and otherwise feeling “fancy” vs “off-the-cuff.”). One option is basically “fancy serifs or no?” is a setting.
I think it could be good to build post-level replies, where, when you get to the comment section, the post-item (i.e. just the height of like 3 lines of a comment) is sorted in the comment section by the karma of the post. So that you don’t have to choose between writing a response in a comment or in a post, but can instead do both in one motion.
agreed, the fundamental “self-recursive” model of twitter feels more complete. twitter’s UI of quickly understanding context is abysmal. fun fact, everything on Reddit is also a single data model “Post”. posts/comments are just rendered differently