Oldschool fediverse phrases, from about 10y ago:
- TZAG: Time Zone Appropriate Greeting (preferred over "good morning")
- TZAF: Time Zone Appropriate Farewell
- #contextpatrol : when someone posted a response which wasn't linked to the original conversation, someone might link the conversation with #contextpatrol (the old StatusNet (ie, GNU Social) interface made not doing this accidentally easily)
- #vaguejokes : an obscure joke that was not really worth or more fun unexplained
Something I also miss: threaded conversations were the norm. Yes, in microblogging! Some of the most intense and interesting conversations about free software philosophy and licensing happened in threads that shot way off to the edge of the page
@cwebber
i subscribe to the zen of python:
Flat Is Better Then Nested
@nightpool flat is better than nested for shallow things, but you won't survive traversing deep things as well in flatland
consider how this affects the quality of The Discourse!
@cwebber @nightpool so... basically reddit, then?
@nightpool @trwnh It may not make people nicer, but I'll say this: there are some reddit / lobsters / hacker news threads that I've read that there's *no way* you could have conversations about in a flat interface. Because people break off into subtopics... and if you look at something like flat news comments on some very popular blogs and news sites, there's sometimes no way to follow the conversation at all... and even if you can, it's usually because topics are grouped at least 1 level deep
@cwebber @nightpool Sounds more like a display issue than a structural issue. They're both trees, you're just showing branch depth in slightly different ways. If you take the indent out, there's basically no difference. And indents don't really scale (see: tumblr reblog chains over 20 posts)
In a more *practical* sense, it helps to have 1) an indicator of the parent, and 2) collapsibility of branches from any node.
