#Qaiku

There's no technical way to do it. People seem to start a new qaiku thread and comment in the previous one that "let's continue this off-topic, but interesting discussion here instead". Seems like at least some users enjoy the evolving qaiku threads, which start on some topic and end up debating something else and then coming back or heading to some other direction entirely.

And AFAIK aaiku's can't be on several channels or channels can't be addressed to Qaiku's after they've been started.

@suviko I aim for "possible", not "mandatory". :)

Jesh.

At the moment, as @suviko said, no, and even it is technically possible to build this kind of feature, it would be quite hard to make it usable and useful anyway and it would probably cause more harm than joy. So i'd have to say we won't prolly see this feature here anytime soon, sorry :)

I'll live. ;)

@eholmila I alway miss newsgourps style threading, I miss it in blog comments (Reddit has it), and I miss it in Qaiku as well. Kinda funny, we had good threading in 80's and 90's, come 00''s and web 2.0, we lose threading.

@samposm: It split the discussions too much for most people to like it, I guess. You can cite to what you are replying to, like in mail or anywhere.

@Suviko (Well I like it.) And I always thought that threading is not implemented (e.g. in blog comments or in Qaiku), because it is more work to implement it, that to not implement. It never before occurred to me that it would be left out on purpose, not just because it takes more work.

Well, I find it hard to believe that it is on purpose; after all, it is possible to make it so that you can turn threading on and off, no? News clients used to have that, my mail program has that.

Some usability expert on Qaiku might have insight into history & evolution of discussion platforms and why threaded discussions fell out of fashion?

I keep on believing that it fell out of fashion because early, primitive web forums and blog didn't have it because they were so quickly hacked together, and that's where we still effectively are. Well, Slashdot has always had threads.