I’m strongly against letting anyone insert anything into the middle of someone else’s post/comment. Nothing should grab the microphone away from the author until they’ve finished speaking.
When Medium added the feature that let readers highlight an author’s text, I found it incredibly disruptive and never read anything on Medium ever again. If LW implemented inline reader commentary in a way that was similarly distracting, that would probably be sufficient to drive me away from here, too.
Yeah, we’ve also been thinking about “in-line” / “select-text” reacts too.
I’m strongly against letting anyone insert anything into the middle of someone else’s post/comment. Nothing should grab the microphone away from the author until they’ve finished speaking.
When Medium added the feature that let readers highlight an author’s text, I found it incredibly disruptive and never read anything on Medium ever again. If LW implemented inline reader commentary in a way that was similarly distracting, that would probably be sufficient to drive me away from here, too.
Very valid concern. We had the same thing with “side comments”. So far seems ok. We’d definitely pay data lot of attention to this when designing.