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Topic: Honest question: what's the problem?.Hack to fake subthreads

Dave deBronkart (Dec 10 2020 at 18:41):

Josh Mandel said:

Dave deBronkart You can have (or approximate) side threads! Just append a suffix to the topic name. (MIT's "Zephyr" chat system was an inspiration for Zulip; there, we had a convention of appending .d to topic names to indicate "further side discussion". This sometimes led to to topics like My topic.d.d.d.d for sub-sub-sub-sub discussions ;-))

I say boo hiss :-) and assert hand-waving. Zulip is a lot more "thready" (emphasis on thread titles) and as this very thread illustrates, the subject of this ".d" bears no resemblance to the content. :smile:

Josh Mandel (Dec 10 2020 at 18:46):

I mean, you can append a more descriptive suffix if you want, so the title tells more of the story :-)

Dave deBronkart (Dec 10 2020 at 18:50):

<Klingon>Your hack encourages tiny thread titles.</Klingon>

Okay, so I edit this one from .d to ".Hack to..." Now I'm left wondering, why bother making it a subthread?

Should we be doing his in #Zulip ?

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