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[The Wanderer]

On 2018-10-17 at 19:40, the DragonBard wrote:

>> 1) It would need to support a line-by-line response to a story, in
>> a way that's reasonably convenient. The web forum interface used
>> by fanfiction.net (among other sites) fails this test. That site is
>> made to facilitate "Woooo! That was great!" comments, not detailed
>> analysis.
> 
> The software that's being used by Spacebattles and Sufficient
> Velocity have something that seems to allow this. You can selectively
> reply or quote from a few lines up to the entire thing if you want.
> 
> Not sure that's  along the lines of what you're suggesting

Those sites do have the major downside that their threading is
completely flat; to the best of my awareness (as a passive reader of
multiple such sites, having refrained from signing up for an account on
any of them for various reasons), there's no possibility of having
replies appear properly nested underneath the message to which they are
replying.

One of the great advantages of E-mail (and of Usenet, for that matter)
is the ability of the recipients to use software which fits their own
preferences with respect to things like that, to an extent which no Web
forum ever has been or - given the way the Web is increasingly more and
more about presentation and formatting - ever will be able to equal.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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