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basil-rash
2y ago
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That’s where the UI affordances come in, for instance a button on each node to hide/show all comments that are descendants of that node.
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stavros
2y ago
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So a tree, but worse.
barbarr
2y ago
4chan threads are more like DAGs
krapp
2y ago
The graph of 4chan threads are definitely cyclical, since they can include back-references.
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basil-rash
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2y ago
What makes you say it’s worse?
stavros
2y ago
The underlying conceptual structure is still a tree, but now you have to unfold it into a line, with one reply potentially having nothing to do with the one before it (because they're on very different branches).
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navigate · click thread line to collapse
