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Re:StackExchange Founder Vows to Reinvent Online Discourse by cabalamat on Thursday February 07, 2013 @04:15AM (#5181201)
> Threaded comments—like here, on HN, and on Reddit—easily spiral out of control. It's especially hard to come back later and see what's new.

Then have multiple views of the same data, so you can see it threaded, oldest first, newest first, etc.

Re:StackExchange Founder Vows to Reinvent Online Discourse by joe_the_user on Thursday February 07, 2013 @05:17PM (#5184886)
The reason multiple views don't work is that a board is a collective document. Everyone will learn to look at the most common view because they want to know what the average user is seeing.

I took me a while to figure this out but since the design and presentation of a board, a board should have none, zero, alternate views. Instead, a board needs good defaults.