Which reminds of one possible new feature: on forums, the whole thread is usually brought to the top when someone adds a comment. I think it’d be an improvement if, say, instead of the useless “Controversial” list, we’d have a list of articles sorted by the time of last comment.
A thousand times yes. This will keep the discussion in the older threads alive. I was going to suggest this myself. It would be even better if there was a way to quickly find out where in the thread the discussion is going on at the moment, and which comments are new.
One possible solution is to use flat view, like in the Comments stream, but localized to an article, with the links to a threaded view, linked to from the list of articles. Also, this list of articles should probably show title only, without summary parts of the text.
Which reminds of one possible new feature: on forums, the whole thread is usually brought to the top when someone adds a comment. I think it’d be an improvement if, say, instead of the useless “Controversial” list, we’d have a list of articles sorted by the time of last comment.
A thousand times yes. This will keep the discussion in the older threads alive. I was going to suggest this myself. It would be even better if there was a way to quickly find out where in the thread the discussion is going on at the moment, and which comments are new.
One possible solution is to use flat view, like in the Comments stream, but localized to an article, with the links to a threaded view, linked to from the list of articles. Also, this list of articles should probably show title only, without summary parts of the text.