I think the UI, instead of just bringing the posts up without explanation, should show you how many new comments the post received. It would be great for keeping tabs on a discussion, too.
The Reddit Enhancement Suite stores a cookie that remembers the number of comments when you visited a post. It's a killer feature.
A more modern UI example:
Like, posts are old because there’s little new content
Yeah, but you could be underestimating the effect of the Active sorting bumping old posts, which leads to a few posts threads rising over and over. Perhaps there's more eagerness to make new threads than you can see, because most of those new threads don't spark the fire of discussion and get quickly buried.
Active sorting is more like 4chan, Hot sorting is like Reddit or HN.
I agree. If they're used solely as any other public forum. The problem is it supports the ecosystem of these platforms' faux private chats. Also if you have to create an account to view a public chat why not make it encrypted all the way? Matrix.org supports encrypted rooms.
It's also ridiculous that you have to give a phone number to use any "type of public forum", telegram.
Telegram is no more secure than any other for-profit platform it claims to be an alternative to.
I don't buy this. It's easy to upload files anonymously.