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Some suggestions:

  1. It would be nice to have the user's own comments differentiated somehow, e.g. with a vertical bar or collapse button of another color, to readily see parts you've participated in when scrolling. (Or am I blind?) Also, where's my cumulative good boy score.

  2. We could use a general Unfinished Conversations thread, to continue specific old discussions from Reddit. E.g. I wanted to give a high-effort response to /u/Lykurg480 there but now would rather proceed here. It'd also serve to incentivize the transition of fence-sitters («hey so I responded on the other side, you're totally Wrong btw, but will not elaborate in the AEOville, ciao» – less flippantly but...)

  3. I actually agree with dramatards that some tasteful multimedia support would be nice, at least for OPs. The culture and moderation would preclude excesses, probably.

  4. We could also strap on a library, a book club, a gym, an Urbit Star, a Matrix chat, an Ygdrassil Network support and a kitchen sink. Seriously though, we need more fallbacks. And public keys in bios.

It would be nice to have the user's own comments differentiated somehow, e.g. with a vertical bar or collapse button of another color, to readily see parts you've participated in when scrolling. (Or am I blind?).

Oh that's a good idea, yeah. I've got a Comments Page revamp coming up, and you'll know it when it happens; I'll try to add it, but if I forget, feel free to pester me.

We could use a general Unfinished Conversations thread, to continue specific old discussions from Reddit.

I get the idea, but I think this may not be worth the effort; maybe it would have been a good idea a few days ago but I think we're already past that window.

I actually agree with dramatards that some tasteful multimedia support would be nice, at least for OPs. The culture and moderation would preclude excesses, probably.

I do indeed have a note that we should add image-upload support for OPs. I'm not worrying about this in the short-term however, we didn't have it on Reddit and it's not going to help that much.

We could also strap on a library, a book club, a gym, an Urbit Star, a Matrix chat, an Ygdrassil Network support and a kitchen sink. Seriously though, we need more fallbacks. And public keys in bios.

The only way we get evicted from the Internet at this point is if we somehow get as bad as Kiwi Farms. I really would not worry about this. I own the domain and none of the server infrastructure is tied to any specific provider, it's a matter of a day or two to get it all spun up somewhere else if I need to.

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