8 days. 8,000 forums

Re:8 days. 8,000 forums by JLehtinen on Saturday April 13, 2013 @01:43PM (#5543935)

You end up lost when you see there's a new reply on a thread you've been following (post count is 67 but yesterday it was 66) and then you go trying to find it for about five minutes. You end up re-reading about 30% of all the posts until you finally find what you were looking for. Repeat until you've read the entire thread 20 times.

But that's not a bad experience compared to when you go read a threaded conversation for the first time when there's over 50 posts — the whole thing is just unreadable. Add to this that even the most technical people can rarely reply to the right post 100% of the time.

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Re:8 days. 8,000 forums by raldi on Sunday April 14, 2013 @11:58AM (#5547193)

The reddit gold feature I mentioned directly addresses what your first paragraph describes. New comments since your last visit are highlighted.

And I don't understand your second paragraph; it never happens to me, but that doesn't mean it's not a problem. Could you help me understand why you find these threads unreadable? Do you make use of the "collapse thread" button?

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