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How have a bunch of programmers not pointed out the obvious yet?
Trees are efficient when you are interested in a subset of the data, inefficient when you want to traverse the entire tree
This applies to online discussion in just the same way as it does to search algorithms, filing systems and anywhere else the two can be used.
Commented Dec 17, 2012 on Web Discussions: Flat by Design at Coding Horror
Web Discussions: Flat by Design
It's been six years since I wrote Discussions: Flat or Threaded? and, despite a bunch of evolution on the web since then, my opinion on this has not fundamentally changed. If anything, my opinion has strengthened based on the observed data: precious few threaded discussion models survive on t...
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