@kdfrawg Both methods have their merits. I just wanted to make sure @matigo was clear these are different approaches.
@kdfrawg the problem with the Plurk approach is it doesn't handle conversational drift well. Root post starts on Topic X that I don't care about, becomes about Topic Y that I do. Plurk gives me no indication of Topic Y, only Topic X.
The Jaiku approach focused on current conversation with a link to the total thread. You could also mute the conversation as well (maybe something @matigo needs to implement anyway).
It seems like there should be some hybrid of the two approaches, though I'm not sure what that looks like, exactly.
@kdfrawg I think we're conflating two concepts here:
- Conversation view where you ONLY see the active conversations (a-la Plurk, but with some improvements).
- A timeline view where it's far easier to see a given post is part of a conversation (like what Jaiku did).
@matigo built the second thing, you're looking for the first.
@matigo Personally I'm not a fan of "only first posts" showing, but that's exactly what Plurk does.Unread count only would be good.
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@konrad I think the people in charge would like to remain so. If more people really knew what was going on, they'd revolt.
@indigo Looking through some screenshots, there is a visual difference between posts as part of a conversation and posts that start a conversation. It also doesn't show the origin/replied to post. You can kind of see that here: http://www.michele.me/blog/assets_c/2009/01/jaiku-stream-758.html
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