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October 3, 2003

User icons on weblog comments ()

by fluffy at 7:23 PM
I really hate doing the whole "weblogging about weblogging" thing, but man, this implementation of LJ-style user pictures is really cool. I might experiment with it on here eventually, when various issues have been worked out.

But I probably won't, what with wanting to migrate over to phpBB for comments anyway.

Comments

#MT1303 i October 4, 2003 1:46 PM

Un-threaded BB systems make G K Chesterton spin in his grave, or something.

#MT1304 fluffy October 4, 2003 2:07 PM

That sounds like a personal problem.

#MT1310 George October 6, 2003 1:40 PM

Joel Spolsky makes a good argument against threads. His argument is that you lose a lot of flow from having conversations nested to multiple depths.

#MT1311 fluffy October 6, 2003 3:31 PM

I've seen pretty good arguments on both sides of the camp. The thing which I like about threaded conversations (done with a nice nested view, like what Scoop and Slash support) is that it's easier to track multiple threads, but the thing I like about single-threaded conversations is that you can have a conversation between more than two people, since people's comments can "inherit" from more than one comment, rather than being limited to a single inheritance.

Ideally, a conversation should flow like a directed graph, not a tree, but that becomes an interface nightmare.

#MT1312 fluffy October 6, 2003 3:40 PM

Wow, that article of Joel's makes a lot of sense. I'll definitely keep that in mind if I get around to integrating phpBB with MT... some of the things are just broken as designed in phpBB (like floating topics to the top, though that won't be such an issue with MT) but some things are easily surmountable (like not putting the 'reply' button at top).

Thanks for the link!