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Ooooh, You used the d word! Closed because Stack overflow is not for discussion.
What SO needs is a forum - not an ephemeral chat but a forum whose topics can be linked to the questions that people want to discuss.
Ooooh, You used the d word! Closed because Stack overflow is not for discussion.
What SO needs is a forum - not an ephemeral chat but a forum whose topics can be linked to the questions that people want to discuss.
A lot of the time if there's many comments on a question or answer it's because there's some nuance that needs to be brought out or the answer has limitations etc. Someone arriving from search probably needs and wants to know that - and will take but a moment to decide if the comments look worthwhile enough to expand and read more.
SO displays it well enough technically by only picking out the top 4 or 5 comments. What SO needs is the mods leaving the comments well alone unless they're abusive or spam.
Note that in that post, everyone who has a diamond after their name is a StackOverflow employee.
I don't think tacking on a forum is the right way to make it even better.
That's kind of what Meta is.