If there was a Reddit/Lemmy style website (where people create communities for various subjects but it's all available from the same website using the same credentials) with forum style discussions I would be outta here in a moment.

My brother, this is that website

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No, it's not. Unless they only allow the sorting of threads based on which discussions has the newest comment (bumping) and remove comment nesting (so discussions are ongoing instead of branching off which makes it difficult to keep up with what's new in the different threads), it's not that website.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Can't someone make a client or a UI which does this?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy already has both of those sorting options built in

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Only works if everyone is sorting the same way otherwise by replying to an old post you're just screaming in the void.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Again, unless it works the same way for everyone then people are just replying to old discussions and no one knows about it except for the person they're replying to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How so? I generally scroll to the bottom on here

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Look at this conversation, it's old enough that it doesn't show in my feed anymore (sorted by top 6h), if I wasn't taking part in it no matter how many people replied to it I would never know it took place.

That's what I'm talking about, if sorting is up to the user then most people only see "fresh" content, not ongoing conversations that they might want to take part in if they realized they're happening. Same for the comments sections, threaded makes it harder to check what's new (have to go down each branch to get the context).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I see this comment two days in the future.

We probably could promote using "New comments" more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

You can use "New comments" to see, well, new comments.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

They have [email protected]

Lemmy is just a forum set to sort by new posts, not new comments.

[–] TORFdot0 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn’t that exactly what “Active” sort does?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

Only works if it's the way everyone is sorting their feed.