http://blogoforum.com/tag/blogoforum+suggestion+thread Talk about blogoforum, suggestion and thread http://blogoforum.com/tag/blogoforum+forum+idea+suggestion+thread/long-thread-or-short-message-3409.html This point is interesting. I may change presentation algorithm in a future. But what I'm thinking about more is - discussion groups (tag groups) and message bookmarking. Actually Blogoforum can change presentation algo based on what messages are bookmarked. This is interesting. - 1 reply Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:21:56 GMT http://blogoforum.com/tag/blogoforum+forum+idea+suggestion+thread/long-thread-or-short-message-3409.html http://blogoforum.com/tag/blogoforum+idea+suggestion+thread/re-edit-and-long-thread-problem-3269.html I'll be the devil's advocate here, OK? :-) You can look at it as a matter of grouping messages. You can group messages into large groups -- long threads. Or you can make only short groups of 3-5 messages, just like now in Blogoforum. So you can have a relatively small number of large groups, or a large number of small groups. The benefit of having large groups is that a user once she has written a post in a thread, she can easily navigate back to the place of interest. Navigating means picking the right group of messages. It's easier to navigate in smaller amount of objects than in large amount. So getting back to a long thread is easier than getting back to a short thread. - 1 reply Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:16:31 GMT http://blogoforum.com/tag/blogoforum+idea+suggestion+thread/re-edit-and-long-thread-problem-3269.html http://blogoforum.com/tag/blogoforum+idea+suggestion+thread/edit-and-long-thread-problem-1997.html Thanks for the suggestion Jason! In the future, Blogoforum will let to edit the message and its attributes plus will keep change history. One of problems which Blogoforum is aimed to solve is long threads. Long thread is a problem: - people rarely read what's inside thread - while real knowledge or important and interesting messages can be hidden in the middle of a long thread and rarely who will find them - during the thread, actual thread subject may change several times, people end up speaking on other things but thread novice can't identify the change - because of possible subject change, an original poster may scream "Don't put offtopic onto my thread" - I can continue but I would better do some development However, a lot of conversations do have thread-like structure. That's why Blogoforum does some steps in this direction: http://blogoforum.com/tag/blogoforum+message+thread+tree/message-threads-on-blogoforum-1848.html - 1 reply Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:28:26 GMT http://blogoforum.com/tag/blogoforum+idea+suggestion+thread/edit-and-long-thread-problem-1997.html http://blogoforum.com/tag/blogoforum+idea+suggestion+tagging/edit-tags-for-a-post-1984.html I just noticed something that could be helpful. If you look at the Wordpress forums (http://wordpress.org/support/), you'll see they use tags there too. However, the entire thread is tagged - not every individual post. This may be against your entire idea, but I think I like that better. Or, it would be nice if someone could add or edit tags to their original post. - 1 reply Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:24:08 GMT http://blogoforum.com/tag/blogoforum+idea+suggestion+tagging/edit-tags-for-a-post-1984.html