@nightpool @trwnh It may not make people nicer, but I'll say this: there are some reddit / lobsters / hacker news threads that I've read that there's *no way* you could have conversations about in a flat interface. Because people break off into subtopics... and if you look at something like flat news comments on some very popular blogs and news sites, there's sometimes no way to follow the conversation at all... and even if you can, it's usually because topics are grouped at least 1 level deep