Timeline for Experimenting with Threaded Replies
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| Nov 17, 2025 at 9:55 | comment | added | Dominique | There seems to be quite some bad blood about the amount of space, used by those "new" comments. Can't you add a setting in the "Preferences" page of the user's profile, in order for us to determine whether or not we want to see the extra information? | |
| Nov 13, 2025 at 16:19 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
added [company-update] to 10 questions - kristinalustig (Id=1530044)
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| Nov 12, 2025 at 22:31 | answer | added | Philippe Cloutier | timeline score: -7 | |
| Jul 24, 2025 at 15:05 | answer | added | Greedo | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jul 22, 2025 at 16:53 | comment | added | halt9k | @starball votes on this specific thread could be messed up now: I first thought that threaded answers include comments redesign and downvoted this thread, only later found that redesign was previous part and was on the other thread, but vote here was already locked | |
| Jul 22, 2025 at 13:32 | answer | added | anatolyg | timeline score: -9 | |
| Jul 14, 2025 at 22:39 | comment | added | user2554330 | This is garbage. If someone replies to a comment, I might want to reply to the reply. Impossible | |
| Jul 9, 2025 at 9:05 | answer | added | MT0 | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jun 29, 2025 at 5:12 | comment | added | M-- | On another note, if this is in response to the FRs posted previously, you may want to add status-review to those posts. | |
| Jun 29, 2025 at 5:11 | comment | added | M-- | Is this an a/b test? I've never gotten this and I checked a couple of times to make sure I did not opt out of experiments. | |
| Jun 24, 2025 at 12:40 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | Btw. is the conversion rate an easy to understand term? I may simply not see it. What is converted into what? | |
| Jun 8, 2025 at 6:39 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | I wonder how this will work out on mobile with the limited space there. Anyway maybe I like threaded comments but not the current implementation of them. Not sure, this can be measured somehow. The speed of experiments might be too high to actually get much useful information out of them. Maybe fixing more stuff and optimizing layouts (for smaller space for example) would make the experiments getting received better. | |
| Jun 8, 2025 at 1:32 | answer | added | M-- | timeline score: 18 | |
| Jun 7, 2025 at 22:24 | answer | added | RedStoneMatt | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jun 6, 2025 at 17:40 | comment | added | John Montgomery | @Hoid It's good that they're getting worked on, but wouldn't it make more sense to fix them before launching the next phase of the experiment? Otherwise it's going to taint the data even more than it already has. | |
| Jun 6, 2025 at 7:13 | answer | added | RedStoneMatt | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jun 6, 2025 at 1:19 | comment | added | M-- | "Why is the comment section wasting so much space?!!!" | |
| Jun 6, 2025 at 0:55 | answer | added | Roddy of the Frozen Peas | timeline score: 24 | |
| Jun 5, 2025 at 18:28 | comment | added | user4581301 | My advice to new users on replying to comments is to edit the question to resolve the issues raised in comments. Only reply with a comment if you need clarification of the initial comment in order to act upon it with an edit to the question. Threading should help here, but might also have the unwanted effect of making it appear that it's OK to leave information out of the post. Willing to see how this all washes out over the course of the experiment. | |
| Jun 5, 2025 at 18:20 | comment | added | user400654 | Love to see threading... but hate that we have to have this awful new ui to support it | |
| Jun 5, 2025 at 18:07 | comment | added | starball Mod | Threaded replies are nice (if they're actually threaded- not just adding one layer of depth)- or at least familiar and have their uses on social platforms like reddit, ... but I wonder what underlying problems this is meant to address and if there are better ways to address them given the Q&A platform's goals. | |
| Jun 5, 2025 at 17:24 | comment | added | Augusto Vasques | @Gimby. I'm saying exactly that to the SE CEO here. | |
| Jun 5, 2025 at 16:36 | comment | added | Gimby | I would have very much liked to see this on Discussions, but on Q&A... just no. Unless behind the scenes you are changing the purpose of the site to be more like Reddit and comments are going to be a more prominent feature. But then not openly admitting that first will continue to cause these experiments to be poorly received. | |
| Jun 5, 2025 at 16:13 | comment | added | kmdreko | I think the image highlights the biggest problem with the new comments - in your example they take up 5x the space of the actual question with only 5 comments. | |
| Jun 5, 2025 at 15:35 | answer | added | TylerH | timeline score: 23 | |
| Jun 5, 2025 at 15:11 | comment | added | Augusto Vasques | Welcome to RedditOverflow, now we also create bubbles. | |
| Jun 5, 2025 at 15:01 | comment | added | Hoid StaffMod | @ThomA No, we don't have any plans to experiment with comments on questions yet. We might at a later date, but it hasn't been discussed. In addition, all those previous bugs have been logged and are either being worked on or are going to be worked on. | |
| Jun 5, 2025 at 14:59 | answer | added | Karl Knechtel | timeline score: 42 | |
| Jun 5, 2025 at 14:45 | comment | added | Thom A Mod | "we will examine the conversion rate for comments created on the new UI with threading compared to the old UI without threading" A lot of the more active users have switched experiments off, because of the state of comments from the existing experiment breaking fundamental features; I'm not sure that this measure will be a good one while such fundamental existing bugs are outstanding. | |
| Jun 5, 2025 at 14:43 | comment | added | Thom A Mod | The prior experiment on comments, which is still active, is only on comments on Answers; is this still the case, or is this expanded to questions as well? If it is, should we be re-reporting [bug]s that we encounter on the question comments that were reported in the prior experiment here? | |
| Jun 5, 2025 at 14:34 | history | asked | HoidStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |