Thread:Talk:Flow/Auto-archiving/reply (62)

The answers are simple:

With current system, if someone answers "years later" he/she will add #7 not as subthread of #6 but at the top level (therefore outdenting, but it will still be in reply to number #6). Normally nobody will add a comment between #6 and #7 afterwards, but the discussion will continue strictly below #7 leaving the old part of the thread alone. This might work in Flow up to this point, although I'm quite sure #7 would become a subthread of #6 in Flow in practice (that's how "reply" buttons work and how people are using them). Therefore the new conversation partially might get partially buried in a sevenfold nested discussion. Maybe someone will then even answer directly to post #1 to artificially outdent the thread, making #7 a "dead end".
 * The first case:

You're right, up to the point you posted (the three replies to #3) a thread in the current discussion system will look exactly like it probably will look in Flow. However you're overlooking something that will happen afterwards (at least if Flow will work the way the whole Feed-thing implies): With the current discussion system a post #7 that is added "years later" will be added at the bottom (as described in my first bullet point). With Flow, the latest post will probably show up quite prominently (as it is the latest post in the thread). The deeply nested discussion starting with #4 might be even collapsed at this point. Therefore it is very unclear where this potential #7 will be added (plus the potential issues mentioned in my first bullet point).
 * The second case: