Comment on Web Discussions: Flat by DesignparentComments−TeMPOraL13y> HN is a dead lisp dialect,pg will be unhappy with calling Arc dead :P.> I don't know what reddit uses.Python (started as Common Lisp though).Also LessWrong uses modified Reddit code to have threaded discussions under articles, and again, as saurik keeps saying, I can bet that 90% of discussion content wouldn't be there if comments were linear. Web discussion is non-linear by nature.
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> HN is a dead lisp dialect,
pg will be unhappy with calling Arc dead :P.
> I don't know what reddit uses.
Python (started as Common Lisp though).
Also LessWrong uses modified Reddit code to have threaded discussions under articles, and again, as saurik keeps saying, I can bet that 90% of discussion content wouldn't be there if comments were linear. Web discussion is non-linear by nature.