Comment by throw0101a
10 hours ago
> Old style forums were a pain in the butt to read but they were better for focused discussion over time.
News readers of the NNTP/Usenet days often had toggles on whether you wanted threading or not. Further they would update your .newsrc file to mark which articles in which newsgroups you have already read, so when you launched them after a few days only unread articles/threads would appear.
And we had kill files for spam.
This. I only dealt with a non-threaded take on usenet for about 1 week in the early 90s.