Nutomic/ibis

Add discussions for articles

Nutomic opened this issue · 2 comments

Nutomic commented

Basically nested comments, very similar to Lemmy but without votes. Once these are federated, users from Lemmy, Mastodon and other platforms can directly discuss articles.

dessalines commented

I'd recommend essentially recreating the comment trees from lemmy, with votes too. I'd just recommend two differences:

  • Leave the sorts to a simple Top and New.
  • Have voting transparent (IE show who voted).

Without voting, it can be hard to build consensus, especially if its a contentious topic.

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Nutomic commented

Voting means that popular comments will go to the top, but an encyclopedia shouldnt be about popularity. Plus voting requires a lot of extra code for the api, rank calculation, vote federation etc. So at least for the initial implementation a simple chronological ordering is better.

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