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I see repeating conversations on a couple of forums I visit all the time, precisely because of the linear nature of the discussion. Nobody is going to bother to read the last 30 pages of dialog, when you have to skip pages and pages and pages of some random flame war between two guys who locked their horns over some irrelevant thing.

While on reddit/HN you just click [—] and skip whole subtrees of comments you're not interested in.

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thats why well run forums split off tangent conversations into different threads. I find this much more useful than the reddit/HN approach of barely organized chaos. I enjoy HN for the content, not the format of the discussion threads. I don't enjoy, and therefore don't use any of reddit.

Sure, but that's a function of moderation and culture of the forum. You aren't going to get something like this on reddit - https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=51332.2960

You can walk through the series of these threads and get essentially a replay of history of this project.

How do you explain that this forum format is becoming less and less common if it's superior in your book?

The friction of disaggregated content.

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