Answers are shown somewhere away from the orginal posts.
This thread looks like I talked to myself:
though there were some answers:
Looks really stupid and unreadable. The discussion tree branch is completely broken.
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This thread looks like I talked to myself
Discourse is not a threaded forum. Itâs why theyâre called âtopicsâ.
I think of that ân repliesâ feature as a look-ahead, to see which later posts include replies to that one. A post may reply to several posts, too.
If you search meta.discourse.org youâll find interminable discussion on the subject.
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Are you sure? (how could one do that?)
Or just a typo and you meant:
There may be several replies to a post.
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I see a quote is not a treated as a reply, so no.
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I am not a fan of this forum either, for the same sorts of reasons. This is me being polite. You donât want to hear what I really think
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Anything better out?
I definitely did not like askbot and its questions, answers divisioning and hereby splittering the timely order of posts.
Did you ever try to follow up in a timely manner something on OpenRepos?
But this here comes closer to standard timely ordered forums as they were known. What is wrong with that?
A post which is replied to holds a link to the answer. And if done continuously you can then follow to the next answer on this reply and hop further and further. Leaving out all the other âchit-chatâ in between.
Of course this here does not follow this reply-answer-reply scheme as it might be an option.
But also: I personally do NOT use threaded view for Outlook based mail viewers (never, I just hate it) as I loose the overview pretty soon (and deleted stuff I did not want to).
So maybe this is just a personal attitude? But I do not know anything better out.
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Wait what⌠did this break the reply chain? I was trying to reply to DaveRo post that has two quotes and it ended up as reply to peterleinchen⌠or just some weirdness, retry
Now seems to work, to repeat the post I will try to delete now:
Actually this post is listed in ârepliesâ in both of the comments you quoted, so yeah
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Thereâs always slashdot/reddit clones, but not sure if those are better (if every comment starts a new discussion tree⌠maybe better to start a new thread (or topic in discourse nomenclature), but itâs good for having few unrelated or only slightly related discussions to the OP, standard forum seems much better for Jollaâs case?)
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I donât care what Discourse is. I care if it is usable or not.
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It is very much usable if you treat it as a forum and not as a threaded general discussion forum where people come into a topic to start offtopic discussions (discussion branches or what have you). No idea why forums lost popularity in web 2.0 but it still seems the best way to keep discussion on topic, if you want to have a separate discussion to the OP just start a new thread
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Old one (https://together.jolla.com/questions/) was quite usable.
Openrepos type is fine if threads are not too deep.
What is wrong with that?
This one definetily is not timely ordered. In timely ordered I would see my comment, then reply to my comment, then my reply to this reply. Here I see my post and then my reply to something invisible.
I do not like threaded view in Outlook or Gmail. But Outlook never drops something that was in between my replies.
Yeah, this is very wierd.
I think I just misclicked as the second attempt replied as expected
Never got used to TJC really, comments got hidden very soon and tracking what exactly bumped a thread was a pain, expand all âsee more commentsâ click on the answers part sort by newest, but the answers to answers wouldnât bump it, so if someone commented on an answer in the middle neither sort would bring it up, it was a mess if you wanted to check whatâs new and often would just skip the hassle if the question wasnât important to me. Sure for collecting questions - answers it was probably ok, but as a place to discuss anything, ugh
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Itâs not so usable at leat due to layout:
Original post is aligned wrong. Itâs start should be placed more to the left than tha answer or at that same level if it is flat timely ordered forum or shown as a quote but not like sub-branch of previous branch.
Not sure if bug but all the ârepliesâ I can expand align fine
Still I think itâs just a matter of giving it time and getting used to (and maybe not expecting this to be reddit and more of a focused discussion)
But anyway it doesnât explain first picture in the original post. Why itâs shown like if I talked to myself?
Well, âbranchâ can be flat, but why the timed odrer is broken?
Though if there is such thing as reply you canât avoid trees anyway.
You replied to the same post twice? Youâre not talking to yourself just replying to the post twice? And as you can reply to multiple posts in one post you also cannot guarantee trees or end up with weird bushes (or imagine how it would look on slashdot/reddit)
edit: if you look at the source (might be tricky as second reply is after loading some extra, just use F12 and then network and then scroll to the bottom so it loads whole thread, second to last json call will have it) both of them have:
reply_to_post_number 3
Itâs just showing direct replies to atlochowskiâs post and both were yours
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Thatâs possible due to horrible layout. Two Reply buttons in the proximity, andthe blue one draws userâs attention making the other one poorly visible.
Possibly here you made same mistake.
Cool, but one answer was like 40+ answers later, so it wasnât an accidental âreplyâ button click