One concrete complaint I have is that I feel a strong incentive toward timeliness, at the cost of timelessness. Commenting on a fresh, new post tends to get engagement. Commenting on something from more than two weeks ago will often get none, which makes effortful comments feel wasted.
I definitely feel like there is A Conversation, or A Discourse, and I’m either participating in it during the same week as everyone else, or I’m just talking to myself.
(Aside: I have a live hypothesis that this is tightly related to The Twitterization of Everything.)
I think this a real problem (tho I think it’s more fundamental than your hypothesis would suggest; we could check commenting behaviour in the 2000s as a comparison).
We have some explorations underway addressing related issues (like maybe the frontpage should be more recommender-y and show you good old posts, while the All Posts page is used for people who care a lot about recency). I don’t think we’ve concretely considered stuff that would show you good old posts with new comments, but that might well be worth exploring.
One concrete complaint I have is that I feel a strong incentive toward timeliness, at the cost of timelessness. Commenting on a fresh, new post tends to get engagement. Commenting on something from more than two weeks ago will often get none, which makes effortful comments feel wasted.
I definitely feel like there is A Conversation, or A Discourse, and I’m either participating in it during the same week as everyone else, or I’m just talking to myself.
(Aside: I have a live hypothesis that this is tightly related to The Twitterization of Everything.)
I think this a real problem (tho I think it’s more fundamental than your hypothesis would suggest; we could check commenting behaviour in the 2000s as a comparison).
We have some explorations underway addressing related issues (like maybe the frontpage should be more recommender-y and show you good old posts, while the All Posts page is used for people who care a lot about recency). I don’t think we’ve concretely considered stuff that would show you good old posts with new comments, but that might well be worth exploring.