Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5810007-20200514195154/@comment-5810007-20200515025303

Andrewds1021 wrote:

I would guess that the "explore" section is meant to be analogous to the "popular pages" rail module. So it makes sense it is autogenerated.

The algorithm makes sense, the lack of an option to change the featured pages doesn't. The default could be autogenerated, and then there could be an option for the administrators to put up different pages. There's nothing wrong with more options. What if someone wanted to highlight recent articles that need more edits instead of their most visited pages?

Andrewds1021 wrote: As for the replies to replies, that is just an arbitrary limit. There is the same issue with blog comments; you can't reply to a reply to a bog comment. Fandom needs to cut it off at some point else you could end up with a reply to a reply to a... to a reply and that would be a mess to deal with; both visually and with regards to data handling. Rather than try to justify why, for instance, 2 replies is acceptable but 3 isn't, Fandom has decided to just stick to one level of replies.

Well there would be two big options in terms of limits - something like YouTube or Instagram's comment sections, which allow you to reply to an individual comment on a post, but not to reply to a reply. (That's level two of replies, right? I'm having trouble keeping track...) Or they could take a more Reddit-like approach of letting you infinitely reply to each other, but it cascades most of those replies. Neither of those would be a mess to deal with, either visually or data-handling wise. It would more or less be the same amount of data as what it currently is, because it would be the same amount of comments. Please correct me on this if I'm wrong.