Does forking a thread harm the flow of a deep conversation?

It does, when I don't see the fork over there

Also, it wouldn't let me fork.. I think I needed in invite to click the branch button

I just saw a tiny image of you in the corner and clicked on it... I wonder if that's sufficient for me to navigate a rich multiparty conversation?

Yeah the forked CtA is too subtle, but no more so than the forking cue itself. You can't branch this thread? Perhaps you're right that you'll need a proper invite.

it does seem at least a little promising.. I have to admit .. I wonder if, like Pinterest, it's gendered, or if it's universally appealing? sparksf.org

I like that every node has an automatic short URL (well relatively)

Hmm, I'll need to change my email settings. Easy spam.

Still.. this is a dialog.. this is not me introducing a rich paper..
I wish to talk about Emperor Norton..

oshua Abraham Norton (c. 1819[2] – January 8, 1880), the self-proclaimed Imperial Majesty Emperor Norton I, was a celebrated citizen of San Francisco, California, who in 1859 proclaimed himself "Emperor of these United States"[3] and subsequently "Protector of Mexico".[4]

Born in England, Norton spent most of his early life in South Africa. He immigrated to San Francisco in 1849 after receiving a bequest of $40,000 from his father's estate. Norton initially made a living as a businessman, but he lost his fortune investing in Peruvian rice.[5]

I am well cut off from having an article's content in here, so I am forced to link for a

discussion of depth

Why reproduce content though? With paragraph-level linking, you can reference all you need. As for communicating through essays... There's always LiveJournal. ;)

Yeah yeah yeah... I just meant, it'd be nice to do a bit more intro.. ala slashdot, to start the conversation off. It's right on the threshold of being possible, but slightly constraining.

slashdot.org

Do you remember kuro5hin.org?

New submitter mybluevan writes "The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science is putting together an open hardware spectrometer kit on Kickstarter. The kits are built using an HD webcam, discarded DVD, and a couple other odd bits. They've also put together a kit for your smart phone and open-source software for desktop, Android, and iOS. Need to analyze the contents of your coffee, the output of your new grow lights, or a distant star on a budget? Just build your own spectrometer, or pick up the limited edition steampunk version." Besides making cool hardware, they'd like to "build a Wikipedia-style library of open source spectra, and to refine and i .... slashdot first headling is too long

k5 was my go-to for long-form thought pieces 10-13 years ago, before I found LJ. It's been dying since.

It's been a while...

now, the question is... is my conversation (and associated links?) easily searchable.. so I can find and reference it... and will I have to remember where it took place, further dividing my digital self into obstructed partitions....

hmm.. share and embed, that's nice at least

This is the kind of crazy interesting shit you would find back in the day. I ended up just following him on LJ. kuro5hin.org

Searchability is a good question. I haven't figured out how to find conversations that I'd be interested in yet.

But with Embed, you can probably set up an IFTTT to auto-embed into the more searchable platform of your choosing... or simply for posterity.