@matigo While I don't want to answer for my friend here, the one improvement you could make on THAT view would be to sort by most recent activity in a given thread, instead of when the root post was posted.
// @kdfrawg
@matigo I've been doing my part, at least on the blogging front. :P
// @japchap @sumudu
@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.