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There should be a feature similar to the ‘single comment thread’ feature Reddit has, where you start with some deeply nested child idea and render all of its deeply nested parents above it:

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This feature would be great for seeing an idea in its proper context without having to scroll past a bunch of potentially unrelated ideas.

For parent ideas, cycle only through revisions that lead to the target idea. Communicate accordingly in the UI. For the target idea, its children, and any of its siblings’ children, cycle through all revisions.

Every idea should have a link to a separate page with the single comment thread. This could just be ideas#show.

This feature would also allow me to remove the buggy ‘context’ feature.

There should be a feature similar to the ‘single comment thread’ feature Reddit has, where you start with some deeply nested child idea and render all of its deeply nested parents above it:

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This feature would be great for seeing an idea in its proper context without having to scroll past a bunch of potentially unrelated ideas.

Cycling through revisions on the parent level might hide the idea but that in itself isn’t a big deal: the user can just refresh the page anytime they quickly want to find their way back to the idea.

Every non-top-level idea should have a link to a separate page with the single comment thread.

This feature would also allow me to remove the buggy ‘context’ feature.

There should be a feature similar to the ‘single comment thread’ feature Reddit has, where you start with some deeply nested child idea and render all of its deeply nested parents above it:

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5

    G
   /|\
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    I

Cycling through revisions on the parent level might hide the idea but that in itself isn’t a big deal: the user can just refresh the page anytime they quickly want to find their way back to the idea.

Every non-top-level idea should have a link to a separate page with the single comment thread.

This feature would also allow me to remove the buggy ‘context’ feature.

When you revise an idea to address a criticism, its author should get a notification so they get a chance to verify that the revision really does address the criticism.

Another problem with the term ‘statement’ is that not every statement encodes knowledge. Only some statements do.

For example, trivial or tautological statements aren’t knowledge, neither in the Popperian nor common sense of the word.

joy may signal a resolved problem

But then the conflict is gone. So I don’t think revision #1741 addresses #1730.

Another problem with the term ‘statement’ is that not every statement encodes knowledge. Only some statements do.

Recall Deutsch’s definitions of knowledge (paraphrasing from memory): information with causal power; information which, once instantiated, causes itself to remain instantiated.

The sentence ‘nice weather we’re having’ is a statement but doesn’t meet those definitions of knowledge.

Feature to collapse all criticized ideas of a discussion? Useful for todo lists.

Feature to collapse all criticized ideas on a page? Useful for todo lists.

Cycling through the revisions of a leaf reveals its gutter, which should be hidden since it’s a leaf.

Because that would mean hiding each comment individually if you ever do want to hide all comments of an idea. And sometimes you just want to hide the comments without collapsing the parent idea.

Having features to both collapse an idea and hide all its comments seems like an opportunity for unification. Why not just go with collapsing and remove the ability to hide all comments?

Include (preview of) content in idea URLs: '/ideas/123-first-30-or-so-chars-of-idea-here'.

Fetching the idea is not necessary if the feature is backwards compatible. Can still just use /ideas/123.

Not if the feature is backwards compatible.

That would mean fetching an idea to compute the path for each hashtag. Overhead?

That would make idea URLs more meaningful, but there’s something simple and beautiful about the shorter URLs that only have the numeric ID.

Use friendly IDs for ideas? A ‘mixture’ where URLs say '/ideas/123-first-30-or-so-chars-of-idea-here'.

Friendly IDs for discussions would be nice. With automatic redirects for numeric ID from legacy links.

All emails have unsubscribe links, but people shouldn’t be able to unsubscribe from system emails like password resets.

Newly added comments keep animating when hidden and then unhidden.

I should revisit this now that I have email infrastructure in place.

See #595. The form for new ideas is pushed to the very bottom of the discussion page. For long discussion, that means users won’t know where to submit new ideas.

Each activity should have a distinct HTML title. The browser history and search results in search engines all look the same…

Each activity should have an HTML title. The browser history and search results in search engines all look the same…