We definitely should make an overall better pagination system. And given how tucked away it is and that it’s probably used mostly by power-users who want to read everything I probably agree it should show negative karma comments.
I agree that /allComments should be linked from _somewhere_ although no, it’s not meant to be a primary use case. We switched to the Recent Discussion setup because “show all comments in order” naturally creates cascading effects where a single huge thread becomes even more huge because it’s the only thing most readers see in the comments section.
Most users don’t read through every single comment. It probably makes sense to me to have a section that works well for dedicated power-user-comment readers, but I expect it’d be a feature that maybe 5-20 people would use total. (If I turned out to be wrong about that I might prioritize it higher)
Most users don’t read through every single comment. [...] dedicated power-user-comment readers [...]
This is not my use case. I mostly skim based on the author, post title, and votes. I don’t want to miss certain things, but I’m also completely ignoring (not reading) most discussions.
FYI, a feature I expect to build in the not-too-distant future is “subscribe to author”, which might address that particular use case more directly. Curious if that feels like it’s pointing in a direction that’s useful to you.
Not unless the traffic increases severalfold where it would be too much trouble to even skim everything. Skimming the content can turn up interesting things from unfamiliar authors under uninterestingly titled topics, and this can’t be recovered by going subscription-only.
We definitely should make an overall better pagination system. And given how tucked away it is and that it’s probably used mostly by power-users who want to read everything I probably agree it should show negative karma comments.
I agree that /allComments should be linked from _somewhere_ although no, it’s not meant to be a primary use case. We switched to the Recent Discussion setup because “show all comments in order” naturally creates cascading effects where a single huge thread becomes even more huge because it’s the only thing most readers see in the comments section.
Most users don’t read through every single comment. It probably makes sense to me to have a section that works well for dedicated power-user-comment readers, but I expect it’d be a feature that maybe 5-20 people would use total. (If I turned out to be wrong about that I might prioritize it higher)
This is not my use case. I mostly skim based on the author, post title, and votes. I don’t want to miss certain things, but I’m also completely ignoring (not reading) most discussions.
FYI, a feature I expect to build in the not-too-distant future is “subscribe to author”, which might address that particular use case more directly. Curious if that feels like it’s pointing in a direction that’s useful to you.
Not unless the traffic increases severalfold where it would be too much trouble to even skim everything. Skimming the content can turn up interesting things from unfamiliar authors under uninterestingly titled topics, and this can’t be recovered by going subscription-only.