Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5810007-20200514195154/@comment-5810007-20200515181246

Andrewds1021 wrote: Yes, but then you would have to deal with an infinite level of nesting.

That's very true and I can see why that would be a bother on mobile. I suppose opening another page like Reddit does at a certain point (resetting the nesting) may detract from the flow of conversation they're going for.

Andrewds1021 wrote: However, I believe (because I don't actually know) Fandom's decision is because it has to be limited at some point and trying to justify why n levels is correct but n+1 is not is a very slippery slope.

I'm a little confused what you mean by this. Nothing is necessarily "correct", it's a design choice. n+2 would simply allow for a vastly more organized page. YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram are all n+2 (replies to replies) and it seems like they aren't exactly tripping over themselves to justify their decision. I'd say it's even harder to justify n+1 because a majority of platforms nowadays allow for at least n+2.

Tupka217 wrote: I shan't claim to be an expert on Reddit, but even they collapse threads. And not just replies to replies.

This is very true, they collapse threads when a comment's score is too low. Discussions doesn't really have an alternative to "downvotes", so if a Reddit-like approach was taken, there would have to be some other way the system calculates which threads to collapse.

But that's not exactly a tough problem to solve: like blogs, separate pages could be utilized. Instead of clicking "load more" ten times, one could simply click "page 2". Comments would be in chronological order like they are now, with the oldest replies pushed to the next page. If a comment has many replies, those replies are collapsed.

Tupka217 wrote: And even Reddit doesn't put multiple discussions in one post.

They certainly do. Look at any AskReddit thread, for example. They wouldn't be completely unrelated discussions, there's an overarching topic for sure, but there's definitely multiple discussions in one post.

Tupka217 wrote: One topic, one discussion is way more reasonable than what you are suggesting.

I'm not suggesting we cram multiple topics in a single post, I'm simply suggesting a more modern approach to organizing the data. Nearly every thread already breaks off into separate, related discussions if there are enough replies. Please see the attached image for an example (apologies for the crude flowchart)



Which one is easier to read?

Tupka217 wrote: And yes, mobile and desktop can be designed differently. That is, however, a waste of resources and a responsive design is better.

Yes, and that responsive design can be altered to avoid issues like this. If FANDOM is going to sink resources into creating a platform and pushing it across every wiki, making it so that basic problems like this don't arise isn't a *waste* of resources.