] I'm talking about this: http://techlist.org/slashdot.jpg.
] It's annoying, because I have to scroll through a whole page
] of those before I get to a comment. Why would I want to look
] at an entire page of links to the exact same thing, with no
] comments? Am I missing something? I often am!

What you and Randy are both missing is that Memestreams is not a finished product.

1. There is no way for me to tell the difference between when someone simply links to a page and when someone provides a link along with commentary. The purpose of the threaded view is to allow you to find out what people are thinking about a particular link. I want all that information in one place, so that in the future when you are out in the internet and you click on the discussion bookmarklet you get everything that people are saying about a URL.

2. There are going to be hundreds of posts on each URL at some point in the future. It should be obvious that the current method of viewing the threads is temporary. There is a reputation system in MemeStreams for a reason. You will ultimately be able to sort the discussions for highly rated posts and posters just as you can on slashdot/kuro5hin, but based on a multi-higharchical reputation system instead of a mono-higharchical moderation oligarchy.

3. A lot of people are going to have very similar things to say about a url. There is no way that I can eliminate similar posts. The technology to do that properly simply does not exist, anywhere. The reputation system will allow you to filter threads for posts made by your highest ranked posters, the highest ranked posts in the thread, a hybrid view of those two, and for posts made after a certain timeframe. That should be more then effective at cutting the threads down to size.

This is not in place right now because:

1. Writing code takes time.
2. I JUST posted the threading code a week ago. In most places this kind of capability isn't needed yet.
3. I wanted to get the discussion capability out before the presentation at phreaknic. I didn't want to hold it off for a month because I needed to work on this filtering capability.

It will not be in place until I am able to get some of the database scalability fixed up.

Yesterday Randy called me up all annoyed because he didn't think the discussion bookmarklet was in an "intuitive location." Look, I'm not stupid. I have previously stated that I cut a lot of corners to get the discussion code out before Phreaknic. There will be minor details that are not right. This isn't because I don't realise that they need to be different. This is because in the interest of time some things have been given a higher priority then other things.

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