MattisManzel:
There is community-wiki: community-wiki government. A lively page that soon developed sub-threads, community-wiki government / constitution and so on. It would be excellent to try a tread day-page set.
We use community-wiki, we write and we work on ideas and we want it comfortably working for that purpose. Other people only read community-wiki, just occasionally or regularilly following what is going on.
Occasional readers with a lot of patience who find a page and read it from beginning to the end are in advantage on community-wiki (and all other wikis). They get presented text in the sequence they are interested in. The others, the major part I guess get presented pages suboptimal. It would be better if following the essence (the document-mode part) ther would be what you’re reading only anyhow. Instead of all the old talk there would right away follow the last and interesting part of the conversation. We know what was said before, we followed the tread from the beginning.
Imagine there were only the last three contributions of each tread on top on a day-page. The older segments of the perl-chain are below.
Two premises: You need access to a view of the whole thread. You need to be able to step another three contributions backward, for reading partially. So at the end of the three-contribution-short thread you have two links
When another contribution is added to a thread and this makes it a forth contribution on this page a new day-page is created (maybe temporarily “drag” the second youngest contribution over to the new page not to be all alone on the new day-page). That makes sure you always have the interesting part of the conversation directly under the document-mode. These “tails” would shift position according to which one was last edited.
See day-page sets for what is all this day-page stuff about. Thanks.
I know there’s a mistake: You can’t tell which daypage belongs to which starting-date for a thread. But, you know, maybe Alex has an idea. Happened before. 