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What it doesn't do well though is make the whole conversation easy to follow; what's revealed by clicking the post number isn't a complete chain.
That could be helpful. A special "chain" page when you click "in reply to". Also, a tooltip (I think that's what they're called) that pops up with the quoted post when you hover over "in reply to" would be nice.
I feel that as it is now is a bit awkward, and harder to engage with.
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Also, a tooltip (I think that's what they're called) that pops up with the quoted post when you hover over "in reply to" would be nice.
Quite frankly, what we need is something like this to help us through the maze that is LFGSS:
As experienced computer users will recall, this was always one of the most popular features of Microsoft Office. :)
Oliver Schick
So much this.
Now that people have to make an effort to quote something, rather than just hitting one button, I no longer have to scroll through the same three three paragraphs of text and half a dozen photos, just to read "this is rad".
What it doesn't do well though is make the whole conversation easy to follow; what's revealed by clicking the post number isn't a complete chain.