Topic on Talk:LiquidThreads 3.0/Design

76.103.244.12 (talkcontribs)

I don't think we need a button to take you to a post's parent. The parent is almost always directly above the post and not hard to identify due to the indentation. Having such a button only adds interface clutter, IMO, as I don't know why anyone would ever actually use it (other than to figure out what it's for).

P858snake (talkcontribs)

When its a long discussion and you quickly want to jump back to the top so you can reply directly to it?

Kaldari (talkcontribs)

But that's not the way Talk page discussions generally work. People don't reply to the original post, they reply to the previous comment. Is the idea here to move people away from that sort of discussion behavior and towards a more traditional discussion board style? Kaldari 18:25, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Nemo bis (talkcontribs)

I think that the scope it's the opposite: you need the "parent" link to understand what the post is replying to. Messages are often messed up with cross-references to previous ones, this is not so rare.

69.142.154.10 (talkcontribs)

Please don't call it 'Parent'. It's object-programming jargon that has wound up all over web UIs. Parent to most people means the people who made them and took them to little-league practice; they are not used to seeing it as a technical navigation feature. Please just use Top (Top Post?).

Also, would a link to the top of the page (to the TOC be helpful?) Ocaasi 17:05, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

GreenReaper (talkcontribs)

It's not the top post, though. It's the immediate ancestor of the reply, hence the name "parent".

Ningauble (talkcontribs)

Speaking of which, whatever happened to the idea, previously discussed (, ) and tried out in the LiquidThreads Labs, of making "add a message to the thread" the default action, rather than "reply as a new sub-thread?" Can someone point me to the discussion where it was decided that it is better to steer discussions into a rightward crab-walk?

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