Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

• Die4Ever@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The benefit to a forum is that posts with new comments move to the top. If a Reddit/Lemmy post gets a single new comment it may or may not be seen again by anyone except the OP or of the comment was a reply then to the op of the replied comment.

  Lemmy does have this actually

  New Comments: Bumps posts to the top when they are created or receive a new reply, analogous to the sorting of traditional forums

  join-lemmy.org/docs/…/03-votes-and-ranking.html

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  • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Neat! Now if I could see which of my subscriptions has new posts/comments.

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• Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You could force latest comment sort on the posts, but leave the comments sorting to the user.

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