{{
`${userDetail.user.displayName}${userDetail.user.cachedBungieGlobalDisplayNameCode ? `#${standardizeBungieGlobalCode(userDetail.user.cachedBungieGlobalDisplayNameCode)}` : ""}`}}
{{getUserClans()}}
This thread is inspired by another: view original post
Edited by Big Black Bear:
2/9/2013 12:02:18 AM
25
This is why the current structure for replies doesn't work...
In the thread I've branched from to create this topic, the following situation occured:
1. OP asks a question.
2. I "Comment" and provide an answer to the OP's question.
3. Bungie employee "Replies" to my post and confirms that my answer is correct.
The big problem here is that the OP (and anyone else who might benefit from seeing an official Bungie response) is not notified of the reply to my comment... Only I am. Furthermore, unless he chooses to expand the list of replies to my comment, he will never see it.
I know this point has been beaten to death, but I wanted to include a real example to illustrate the point.
-
21 Replies in this Sub-ThreadI don't understand this feedback. When I replied to your comment, people could clearly see that there are replies to it (view the reply counter and the button to show replies). While it is true that nobody has to look at the replies already made to you before replying as well, this has always been true. In a flat view, this happens even more often, because there isn't an easy way to see all the replies made to you. This way, if you care what people have already said in response to your post, it is right there, in reply order. There are a few advantages of a flat threading model, but this is not one of the places where it holds the advantage.
-
Hiding them is the only way to allow the forum to perform at the capacity necessary. They aren't just hidden, they aren't even loaded. While different filters/sorts are possible, an "expand all conversations" option is not something we are likely to add. And this state of affairs is not different that the old bungie.net. If I replied to your post there, other people coming in later had no way to see all the replies to that post. Indeed, most just didn't care and replied despite the conversation taking a different turn later in the thread. Now, at least you have the ability to have all direct replies in one place, rather than having to jump to multiple discrete pages. You can't tell me that the old model it was possible to see all the replies to a particular comment, because it wasn't. Not only would they be intermixed with replies to other posts, unless someone quoted, you couldn't tell.
-
What about pages, could we ever see the return of pages to threads? I think it would be vastly preferable to infinite scrolling, especially with really long threads, where it is now virtually impossible to see the beginning of the thread. I propose that each page have 25 comments on it, and this would exclude replies to comments, which would be hidden as they are now.
-
-
