Well, it was a nice experiment, but I learned that the nested comments feature caused more trouble than it solved.
I was having trouble myself following some discussions, and if I’m having trouble, many other are as well. Another issue was mobile browsers, I had no idea how many people read WUWT on Iphones and such, and for them the issue of readability is even more important.
So I’m returning to linear format, with oldest comments at the top.
– Anthony
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Ouch, un-nesting a bunch of my comments on one thread made a shambles of meaning, but I agree with your decision, Anthony. I think making specific reference to the commenter and the time works better. Though more difficult to create a conversation this way, the mental exercise in trying to keep conversations straight on a linear thread is useful. On a nested thread, there is too much backchecking to see if anything’s been said. Nice try anyway. The board I started blogging on years ago had a unique method of nesting which worked well, but eventually had to be abandoned because the fellow who had written the code left and it got so that nobody could repair or modify it. So, bang, they closed it and bought a commercial version sans nesting. They also started moderating it, which made it boring. Moderation, here, by the way, is excellent. How did you get so lucky?
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Bob D (12:41:30) :
Let me try it <sub> doesn’t work in wordpress.com free hosting, but <strike> does
strike. Nested format works <i> <b> gives italic bold. </i> turns off italics then </b> turns off bold.Didn’t quite work the way I had it planed but I get the picture.
Bob D (12:38:37) :
Maybe but what looks more smart arsish. “” or </b>?
Hmm! no. “>” doesn’t work if used together with “<” in the correct tag order.
This is just a test message.
Here
Finished.