CyberShadow
commented
5 years ago 1. Inform a user when replying to threads older than 3 months, that this is discouraged.
There is something like this already:
Though, the current message merely warns without suggesting something.
We could add an additional lint check upon posting.
is very annoying as it makes for lots of scrolling (e.g. on a phone) with the threaded forum view.
I think this is the real problem. Being able to fold (parts of) a thread has been suggested, but I haven't found a way to approach / implement this functionality in a sensible way so far.
ntrel
Resurrecting old threads e.g. just because people want to see if anything has happened since is very annoying as it makes for lots of scrolling (e.g. on a phone) with the threaded forum view. This happens quite regularly on the general forum (after people find an old message e.g. through Google). DFeed could:
Inform a user when replying to threads older than 3 months, that this is discouraged. Suggest they make a new thread and link to the old thread (even provide a button to do this for them). Make them confirm that they want to resurrect the thread.
Don't display messages older than 3 months on each forum's main page for the threaded view, just show a link with three dots going to the first message page for the thread with the full thread history expanded.