Yes, I agree with you. I'll add another space in between comments.
I was debating when to bring this up, so I'll float it here where maybe no one else is looking (since you seem sympathetic.) In the new system there is only one option for comment style. Straight, with the posting box. This is done for reasons of economy on the back end (this saves space and processing time, as well as solving the problem of deleing nesting sub comments when a parent comment is deleted.) But I actually think it's better too. I never liked the nesting because there is no mechanism to deal with too much of it. What if everybody nests their comments? Pretty soon each comment would just be single letters down the right hand edge of the page. And that's not even taking into account future mobile devices we might be reading this on. Maybe you can see 5 or 10 nests on a big monitor, but what if you were trying to read it on a Palm Pilot?
Anyway, that's my big admission. I did away with this choice and didn't even ask for opinions first. I'm still hoping no one will care too much. I'm glad that you came to the same decision independently. Maybe I'll point any dissenters in your direction ;-)
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I was debating when to bring this up, so I'll float it here where maybe no one else is looking (since you seem sympathetic.) In the new system there is only one option for comment style. Straight, with the posting box. This is done for reasons of economy on the back end (this saves space and processing time, as well as solving the problem of deleing nesting sub comments when a parent comment is deleted.) But I actually think it's better too. I never liked the nesting because there is no mechanism to deal with too much of it. What if everybody nests their comments? Pretty soon each comment would just be single letters down the right hand edge of the page. And that's not even taking into account future mobile devices we might be reading this on. Maybe you can see 5 or 10 nests on a big monitor, but what if you were trying to read it on a Palm Pilot?
Anyway, that's my big admission. I did away with this choice and didn't even ask for opinions first. I'm still hoping no one will care too much. I'm glad that you came to the same decision independently. Maybe I'll point any dissenters in your direction ;-)
- jim 3-06-2002 9:23 pm