Thread:Talk:Flow/Auto-archiving/reply (65)

Sorry, but you did cleary not understand my second point, and also not my intention on screen real estate: The important part of the thread, which might have continued through "4", "5" and "6" is old ad this point, will be marked as read and might be collapsed. Therfore the "important part's visibility is low, while the unimportant part's visibility is high! What I wanted t express is, that Flow probably will encourage people to reply to new posts, in contrast to following the golden thread down to parts which might be already collapsed. You propably now the idiom "Out of sight, out of mind". That's exactly what will happen when collapsing is used. And (I'm sorry to destroy this dream) a user will not remember all content he read so you can cleanly wipe it from his "feed". He often needs substantial parts of past discussion as a mnemonic device – and he'll forget most of the past discussion as soon as this device is removed (aka old content collapsed)... And people will discuss over and over again, exactly the same content, having forgotten all that was before (reminds me of "groundhog day").
 * The latest post in a thread (that might be new, therefore unread and uncollapsed) might be a totally uninteresting side note (the tangent you mentioned between comments "3" and "4" above). It will be the latest dicussion, therfore marked unread and unfolded for everyone, therefore attracting traffic. People might reply to this tangent!
 * Regarding screen real estate: Yes, I want to save up as much space as possible. But not by hiding content but by optimizing the UI and using the available space for content as efficiently as possible.

A personal side note: I have disabled collapsing for Liquid Threads, for exactly this reason. I want to have all the conversation right at my hands. So I can re-read old comments whenever I wish and to always have an overview of a threads history, to prevent discussing things over and over again.