Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back again

Re:Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back a... by lyra_comms on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @06:26AM (#14701241)

We are working to restore the openness of online discussion with Lyra: www.hellolyra.com. We aim to provide helpful services for conversation, not to get users addicted.

We have made the choice to focus around people and conversations rather than topics (because Lyra is designed to be harrassment-proof, and topics lead easily to harrassment - you don't see this so much in the tech world but in the mainstream it's a huge problem).

We are currently thinking about the best way to do notification aggregation (Facebook does this very badly - several comments on the same conversation will give you several different notifications) and marking-as-read. We have several interesting options in test at the moment.

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Re:Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back a... by d--b on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @06:37AM (#14701297)

Just some thoughts: putting the full message in the discussion tree means that people will tend to write shorter / comment-like messages, and not in-depth argumentations.

On the other end, having only a tree of authors is a bit to slim, cause you have to read the content of each message to know what's going on. I think people who reply to a thread should give it a "reply title". You know it's the same thread, but you can have an idea of the content with the reply title.

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Re:Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back a... by lyra_comms on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @11:52AM (#14703423)

Thanks for your thoughts!

Are you suggesting that every reply should have a title?

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