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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 17/11/2023 21:36, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 17/11/2023 11:35, J?rg Lorenz wrote:
>>>> On 17.11.23 10:54, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>>> On 17/11/2023 08:38, J?rg Lorenz wrote:
>>>>>> On 17.11.23 09:26, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>>>>> On 16/11/2023 22:23, Nuno Silva wrote:
>>>>>>>> How often does a webforum support threading?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All web forums support threading.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That is not true. Most do not.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Without threading they would be useless
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps for *your* brainstructure but obviously not for others.
>>>> Most forums are moderated. Subthreads with OT discussions are eliminated
>>>> or separated.
>>>
>>> So they *are* threaded then?
>> 
>> There must be a difference in definitions of "threading" going on
>> here.
>> 
>> While most web forums can have separate threads started by the
>> first post, I rarely find a way to display sub-threads branching
>> off like you can with a tree view in most news readers (and I have
>> often looked hard just in case it's burried in the forum's
>> options). If someone starts a discussion about tint2 on a forum and
>> everyone starts talking about threading there instead, on web
>> forums a person only interested in tint2 may have a very hard time
>> working through all the OT posts in order to find out whether
>> anyone discussed tint2 at all. On Usenet it's easy to see in a
>> proper threaded view where the discussion branches off and skip
>> around that.
>> 
> Oh you mean MULTI-threading.
> Why didn't you say?

Actually "Nuno Silva" was the one that mentioned threading as a
missing feature from forums, see the quotes (or, for that matter,
threading). I just interpreted it as what you call multi-threading,
which I'm pretty sure was as intended.

> One of the *advantages* of forums is that there is no way to veer off 
> topic easily.

Do you really believe discussions don't veer way off topic all the
time on forums? You apparantly use the Raspberry Pi Forums so I
can't follow that.

Of course the discussions veer off exactly as easily on web forums,
the only difference is that it's harder to read them when they do.
Heavy moderation _might_ control it, but as unlike on Usenet the
moderation usually happens after articles are posted, that requires
moderators to jump in fast enough that things aren't already mixed
up by the time they intervene. Anyway extra workload on moderators
is hardly an *advantage*, and the OT discussions will always be
attempted regardless of how poorly designed the platform is for
displaying them.

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Re: tint2 keeps crashing "Nuno Silva" <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2023-11-16 22:23 +0000
  Re: tint2 keeps crashing "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-11-16 23:33 +0100
  Re: tint2 keeps crashing The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-11-17 08:26 +0000
    Re: tint2 keeps crashing Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2023-11-17 09:38 +0100
      Re: tint2 keeps crashing The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-11-17 09:54 +0000
        Re: tint2 keeps crashing Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2023-11-17 12:35 +0100
          Re: tint2 keeps crashing The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-11-17 12:10 +0000
            Re: tint2 keeps crashing not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2023-11-18 07:36 +1000
              Re: tint2 keeps crashing "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-11-17 23:06 +0100
              Re: tint2 keeps crashing The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-11-18 11:10 +0000
                Re: tint2 keeps crashing not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2023-11-19 07:26 +1000
                Re: tint2 keeps crashing "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-11-19 13:19 +0100
                Re: tint2 keeps crashing The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-11-19 12:35 +0000
                Re: tint2 keeps crashing not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2023-11-20 06:46 +1000
                Re: tint2 keeps crashing "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-11-19 21:49 +0100
                Re: tint2 keeps crashing The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-11-20 00:06 +0000
                Re: tint2 keeps crashing "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-11-20 02:57 +0100
                Re: tint2 keeps crashing The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-11-19 12:34 +0000
                Re: tint2 keeps crashing not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2023-11-20 07:06 +1000
    Re: tint2 keeps crashing "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-11-17 13:33 +0100
      Re: tint2 keeps crashing The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-11-17 13:04 +0000
        Re: tint2 keeps crashing Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2023-11-17 16:01 +0100
        Re: tint2 keeps crashing "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-11-17 16:21 +0100

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