As much trn functionality as it seems to be worth coding—in particular, the ability to default to only seeing unread comments (or at least a Recent Comments for posts as well as for the whole site) while reading comments to a post while having easy access to old comments. the ability to default to not seeing chosen threads and sub-threads, and tree navigation.
If you want to find out how people generally use the site, I think a top level post asking about it is the only way to get the questions noticed. If you post it, I’ll upvote it.
And in the absence of such a feature, my current compromise is to not look at a post until people have mostly stopped commenting on it, so that I can read the comments with threading and without redundancy. This is not very conducive to conversations, and as such I have mostly stopped commenting since adopting this strategy.
Here’s my wishlist:
As much trn functionality as it seems to be worth coding—in particular, the ability to default to only seeing unread comments (or at least a Recent Comments for posts as well as for the whole site) while reading comments to a post while having easy access to old comments. the ability to default to not seeing chosen threads and sub-threads, and tree navigation.
If you want to find out how people generally use the site, I think a top level post asking about it is the only way to get the questions noticed. If you post it, I’ll upvote it.
Seconded.
And in the absence of such a feature, my current compromise is to not look at a post until people have mostly stopped commenting on it, so that I can read the comments with threading and without redundancy. This is not very conducive to conversations, and as such I have mostly stopped commenting since adopting this strategy.