Likely too complex and unwieldy to be implemented in practice or make sense as a react system, but I thought I would mention it just in case:
Some of the reacts, such as “I already addressed this”, could possibly benefit from some sort of “pointing” functionality, selecting the part(s) of the discussion where one addressed it. Similarly, “Please elaborate” could possibly benefit from selecting the part(s) that one wants elaborated.
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.
Likely too complex and unwieldy to be implemented in practice or make sense as a react system, but I thought I would mention it just in case:
Some of the reacts, such as “I already addressed this”, could possibly benefit from some sort of “pointing” functionality, selecting the part(s) of the discussion where one addressed it. Similarly, “Please elaborate” could possibly benefit from selecting the part(s) that one wants elaborated.
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.