Did anybody consider having subtopics in Flow conversations? On the classic talk pages the topic is usualy denoted using == and the subtopics using ===, ====, and so on. Does Flow offer solutions to the workflows that need it? For example: Policy change proposition, opinions for, opinions against, misc discussion.
Topic on Talk:Structured Discussions
Here's a subtopic
So runs of '=='s to format heading levels works.
But maybe you want to have subpages (that by default aren't Flow boards) if you're trying to make structured wiki pages.
Here's a deeper subtopic
But presumably someone trying to respond to this one section would get frustrated. They could use VE to copy and paste and italicize the original text. Sort of like trying to reply to an e-mail message by selective quoting.
FWIW my biased suggestion is to make "Quote the selection in a new reply" and "Create a new topic from the selection" very easy, kind of how Phabricator's 'Quote' generates a link back like this:
- >>! In T94279#1160023, @SomeUser wrote:
- > (Their text)
However, my idea doesn't have much traction :)
We can even go big with H1
A Flow post allows most wiki markup, even though some doesn't make sense.
Actually, that's the wrong hierarchy: subtopics in the usual wiki sense allow multiple replies within them, it's not that a long reply needs splitting up into parts.
Though you're on the right track with that "Create a new topic from the selection". Except: does it leave a notice in the original thread about the new one? Can the new one be embedded in the old one, e.g. in an iframe?