LCA: Addressing the failure of open source [LWN.net]

LCA: Addressing the failure of open source

Posted Jan 18, 2012 5:57 UTC (Wed) by sitaram (subscriber, #5959)
In reply to: LCA: Addressing the failure of open source by corbet
Parent article: LCA: Addressing the failure of open source

let me say this before this article gets too many comments...

We might need a "collapse thread" feature to the threads (or have I missed it somehow?)

Some people take an article about X and launch into a long debate about Y, and for people who don't care about Y it gets tedious paging down, and or looking at the left edge to find the next comment that is outside that sub-thread.

Actually, just printing the indentation number (perhaps in parens) next to each comment subject line would be fine; I can Ctrl-F for the next comment with the same number in parens.

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LCA: Addressing the failure of open source

Posted Jan 27, 2012 6:42 UTC (Fri) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link]

> Actually, just printing the indentation number (perhaps in parens) next to each comment subject line would be fine; I can Ctrl-F for the next comment with the same number in parens.

Have you mailed that in as a suggestion? I like it! =:^)

Meanwhile, IIRC there was an LWN firefox extension or at least grease monkey script. I've never tried it, but it could well have something like this, and if it doesn't, adding it should be reasonably easy, I'd think.