Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?

• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lemmy already has both of those sorting options built in

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Only works if everyone is sorting the same way otherwise by replying to an old post you’re just screaming in the void.

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• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Again, unless it works the same way for everyone then people are just replying to old discussions and no one knows about it except for the person they’re replying to.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How so? I generally scroll to the bottom on here

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    • Blaze@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can use “New comments” to see, well, new comments.

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Look at this conversation, it’s old enough that it doesn’t show in my feed anymore (sorted by top 6h), if I wasn’t taking part in it no matter how many people replied to it I would never know it took place.

      That’s what I’m talking about, if sorting is up to the user then most people only see “fresh” content, not ongoing conversations that they might want to take part in if they realized they’re happening. Same for three comments sections, threaded makes it harder to check what’s new (have to go down each branch to get the context).

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      • Blaze@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I see this comment two days in the future.

        We probably could promote using “New comments” more.

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