Post ASdttH7wPpmGPlOfYG by misty@digipres.club
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(DIR) Post #ASdttH7wPpmGPlOfYG by misty@digipres.club
2023-02-13T16:41:30Z
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Having made popular posts on both here and cohost, I’ve got to say the forum-style comment threads on cohost have done a really good job of cutting down on duplicate replies. Like Twitter, it’s too hard here to see if people have replied to a post with what you want to say yet, so most people just don’t and reply anyway. Which makes reading your own mentions hell if a post gets popular.
(DIR) Post #ASdu3i457I7sr9ZDrU by darius@friend.camp
2023-02-13T16:43:23Z
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@misty there is also the phenomenon where I might look at your post here and see 3 replies, but if I click through to your server I would see 30. this means I could scan literally every visible reply and think mine was unique
(DIR) Post #ASdu6zvz8QrZ97LdZ2 by darius@friend.camp
2023-02-13T16:43:39Z
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@misty there is also the phenomenon where I might look at your post here and see 3 replies, but if I click through to your server I would see 30. this means I could scan literally every reply visible to me and think mine was unique
(DIR) Post #ASdu8Qq2ajzSsSFe9g by mcc@mastodon.social
2023-02-13T16:44:11Z
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@misty Do you think it would help if the reply button / reply interface advertised the number of replies already present?Tusky shows the number of replies a post has even in the basic feed, but the web interface for some reason does not.
(DIR) Post #ASduAty9FsNxnuDmXA by misty@digipres.club
2023-02-13T16:44:43Z
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@darius Oof, yeah. So actually worse than on Twitter.
(DIR) Post #ASdv00fc6HWXM6vE6y by misty@digipres.club
2023-02-13T16:53:58Z
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@mcc The history of Twitter suggests no, since replies are visible there and it hasn’t stopped people. @darius also points out that the actual number of replies isn’t visible to you from a remote server.
(DIR) Post #ASdv73rmcBurIOycFc by darius@friend.camp
2023-02-13T16:55:10Z
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@misty @mcc the number could be available, though! it would be an extra network request, which has a lot of knockon effects that implementors like to avoid, but it's not a hard limit of the network.
(DIR) Post #ASdvA0JOHu8n8jIEYC by darius@friend.camp
2023-02-13T16:55:24Z
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@misty @mcc the number could be available, though! it would be an extra network request, which has a lot of knockon effects that implementors like to avoid, but it's not a hard limit of the network.(but also I agree: basically, people don't read)
(DIR) Post #ASdwK8TGuFEFIOJGoy by mcc@mastodon.social
2023-02-13T17:08:46Z
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@misty @darius I do think this place is actually a little worse about it than Twitter tho lolRe number of replies: Looking more closely, what Tusky generally seems to do is show either "0", "1", or "1+". Is that data you can get without a second query?It seems like considerate people would take the "1+" as a sign there might be a lot of traffic already. If people were considerate. I guess even in Tusky it could be more foregrounded than it is.
(DIR) Post #ASeCwJRa9luLb7kICm by despens@digipres.club
2023-02-13T20:14:47Z
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@misty elk.zone is a little better interface-wise with displaying threads.bonfirenetworks.org has the best thread display (to my liking at least), but it's not ready to use yet.
(DIR) Post #ASeDnisKKldhosiu4e by despens@digipres.club
2023-02-13T20:24:38Z
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@misty @mcc @dariusIndeed because every server can be set up differently regarding blocks or queue management, remote users might never see a certain reply or only with a huge delay, while the user who created the original post will most likely see most replies. Sending a new reply might make sense from a remote user's perspective while it might appear redundant for the creator of the original post who is more likely to see most replies.