Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: How did these responses end up here?
Author: Jim Roepcke Posted: 11/25/1998; 8:33:14 PM Topic: Testing a new feature. Msg #: 514 (In response to 501) Prev/Next: 513 / 515
Wouldn't it be sensible to be able to post a message as a new thread, rather than having to attach to an unrelated existing thread?A reader, trying to read all of the messages in a thread, will eventually stumble upon these totally unrelated sub-threads, and burn brain cells determing they need to move on to the next message.
I wonder what a usability expert or information architect would think about a site that didn't care about "where they put stuff", but instead relied on a search engine.
Obviously, life goes on without a "new thread" feature, it'll be a neat experiment to see how/if this impacts usability as time goes on.
Jim
There are responses to this message:
- Re: How did these responses end up here?, Dave Winer, 11/26/1998; 6:35:17 AM
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