I second @kenny's request. Please build something that helps with discovery and re-discovery of deep-threaded replies. (For now I'll try more quote-casts).

I love this place but I find it quite difficult to locate and carry on deep-dive convos here, especially in response to long-form writings.

By the time I manage to read a long essay or thread and return with a substantive and thoughtful response, everyone has moved on, and nobody will even see the discussion by then because reply-bumping doesn't happen anymore and the algo won't resurface it.

Kinda defeats the point. It's discouraging to have the algo operating at cross-purposes to one of the things I love most about FC: eavesdropping on (and contributing to) group convos among brilliant people. There's so much value in the social context.

I've unintentionally left some interesting conversational threads hanging because I can't find them easily... and even if I did, I know replies won't be visible to anyone but me and the person I respond to.

"I've unintentionally left some interesting conversational threads hanging because I can't find them easily... and even if I did, I know replies won't be visible to anyone but me and the person I respond to."

I can understand not listening to my feedback cuz I come off as a complaining broken record

but pls consider Danica's thoughtful and well written case below 👇

intersubjective mechanism design @ poidh.xyz - come chill /poidh + follow @poidhbot

misclicks happen! 

but I do shitpost a lot so I wouldn't be surprised if I got purged at some point trying to have a more readable feed lol

no matter what though I appreciate you lending your voice to the reply bumping cause 🤝 

it's a real tragedy to me, especially because me and a few people even went out of our way to get someone to do a statistical analysis that literally shows how conversations were harmed with the removal of reply bumping:

Writer, senior editor, music nerd, GenX eldergoth, monastery-bootstrapper. https://paragraph.xyz/@danicaswanson https://tinyurl.com/Black-Stone-Wordsmith

misclicks happen! 

but I do shitpost a lot so I wouldn't be surprised if I got purged at some point trying to have a more readable feed lol

no matter what though I appreciate you lending your voice to the reply bumping cause 🤝 

it's a real tragedy to me, especially because me and a few people even went out of our way to get someone to do a statistical analysis that literally shows how conversations were harmed with the removal of reply bumping: https://paragraph.xyz/@yesyes/checking-the-comment-velocity-of-real-users

Thanks for the quote-cast. I really hope we'll see some progress in this direction.

(Also, I *just now* realized I somehow unfollowed you without intending to...? I know that I was following you back in the days of reply-bumping... lol).

Growing veggies for the fine folks of Southeastern Massachusetts, w/ a focus on nutrient quality. Always interested in the evolution of digital payments.  🎩 

the other tragedy of the following feed is that recasts are useless and don't resurface anything into it

if you recast something I want to see it!

If I put a lot of thought into a buried reply I’ll manually recast it, though it doesn’t seem that the algo picks it up so we’ll.