RE: Responding to posts.
May 22, 2014 at 3:25 pm
(This post was last modified: May 22, 2014 at 3:29 pm by Autumnlicious.)
This is going long.
Let me clarify things:
1. Multiposts in quick succession are folded together.
2. Staff accounts, by group membership, have that functionality disabled
The rationale for imposing multipost folding is not clear - it was made a while ago and predates myself.
There are arguments for it - folding N posts to
1 post certainly reduces database wastage, for example.
As has been pointed out, it breaks read new posts.
That isn't easy to fix - each user carries a list of the tail ids of each topic they read and the logic expects to see a difference to indicate new posts. The design of the software is inflexible, with high cost for modification and low barrier to mistakes.
As there is no pressing need to disable folding except for minor aesthetics and a penalty towards database usage if disabled, I fail to see the benefit in change for the sake of change.
Please do not think I am disregarding your input without due consideration.
Let me clarify things:
1. Multiposts in quick succession are folded together.
2. Staff accounts, by group membership, have that functionality disabled
The rationale for imposing multipost folding is not clear - it was made a while ago and predates myself.
There are arguments for it - folding N posts to
1 post certainly reduces database wastage, for example.
As has been pointed out, it breaks read new posts.
That isn't easy to fix - each user carries a list of the tail ids of each topic they read and the logic expects to see a difference to indicate new posts. The design of the software is inflexible, with high cost for modification and low barrier to mistakes.
As there is no pressing need to disable folding except for minor aesthetics and a penalty towards database usage if disabled, I fail to see the benefit in change for the sake of change.
Please do not think I am disregarding your input without due consideration.
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