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A reply chain (AKA reply thread) is a list of replies, and replies to those replies, displayed under the original post.
Indieweb Examples
Ashton McAllan
- 2015-05-?? began re-sending webmentions for a post when it receives a comment.
Kyle Mahan
- 2015-06-09 supporting downstream comments
- Red Wind re-sends webmentions for a post when it receives a comment.
- also parses "p-comment" on incoming replies and interprets them as downstream replies (they look just like first-order replies in my UI).
Ben Roberts
- 2015-10-16 supporting reading and display of downstream comments but intentionally only goes one level down.
Chris Aldrich
Chris Aldrich makes clever use of permalink URLs with fragments to thread conversations between Twitter and WordPress: https://boffosocko.com/2018/07/02/threaded-conversations-between-wordpress-and-twitter/- He does something similar for other platforms which support Webmention
Why
- ... to see all replies
Markup
How to markup a reply chain:
- ... still under study ... feel free to add suggestions ...
Receiving downstream comments
On 2015-02-19, Ashton McAllan proposed a mechanism for propagating a reply-to-a-reply upstream, back to the original post[1].
The mechanism works like this:
- Aaron writes a note
- Barnaby replies to the note and sends a webmention to Aaron
- Aaron parses the reply, and adds it as a comment on his note
- Crystal replies to Barnaby's reply, sends a webmention to Barnaby
- Barnaby parses Crystal's reply, adds it as a comment on his reply
- Since Barnaby's post is itself a reply, he in turn sends a webmention to Aaron's original post, letting him know the reply has updated.
- Aaron checks Barnaby's reply for updates as usual, and sees that Barnaby's reply now has a comment
- Aaron parses the comment and interprets it as a 2nd level comment on the original post.
Silo Examples
- An example of reply chaining on Twitter: https://twitter.com/benwerd/status/490958867803537408
- Twitter also clusters related replies together in its visual design from https://twitter.com/craigmod/status/623506782267305984 (Screenshot on 2015-07-21)
Other Examples
- Visualization of threaded discussions from May-Li Khoe's master's thesis:
FOSS
- Debiki uses a unique 2D scrolling view: http://www.debiki.com/demo/-71cs1/demo-page-1
See Also
- reply
- recursive reply-contexts
- comment
- comment-propagation
- https://petermolnar.net/nested-comments-are-bad/
- Salmention / Salmon
- tweetstorm
- https://treeverse.app/, a reply thread tool/browser extension for visualizing branching conversations on Twitter
- https://blog.grotenhuis.info/2023/01/25/if-you-feel.html
- "If you feel like writing a thread, ask if yourself if it should be a blogpost, instead.
✴️ Also on Micro.blog
✍️ Reply by email" January 25, 2023
- "If you feel like writing a thread, ask if yourself if it should be a blogpost, instead.