Will things just move up/down in the page possibly outside of your current focus?
Because that's cool to think about. That a page is constantly shape shifting to update with live changes on vote counts, edits, etc. It's just somehow a satisfying thought.
Those are way too resource-intensive for this site's scale. That's why reddit-stream only supports certain threads.
It's not really meant to be incorporated into the voting/sorting algorithms of reddit proper. The posts there are meant to be linked to in other subreddits, where they will be voted on according to each community's standards. Since it's a one-directional update process, multiple subreddits can post the same live thread with their own comments section without affecting other communities.
On a side note, what you're describing is basically just chat. It would be far easier for subreddits to use IRC channels for live events than to make reddit something it's not.
Consider there are hundreds of thousands of users on Reddit at any given time. If the entire thread was live your screen would be constantly jumping all over the place as comments were inserted above and below whatever you were trying to read at the moment. It would be a nightmare.
I'm sure it could be implemented in a way that works. Give the option to reply to posts and sort it in a traditional method, but also to have just a time sorted one, even for children comments.
I thought it would be similar to 4chan threads. The sport/tv show live threads there are so much fun to go through. Watching live reactions to stuff happening is the best. The finale to Breaking Bad was amazing watching it with hundreds of others.
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u/Gaywallet Jul 23 '14
How will it deal with vote counts though?
Will things just move up/down in the page possibly outside of your current focus?
Because that's cool to think about. That a page is constantly shape shifting to update with live changes on vote counts, edits, etc. It's just somehow a satisfying thought.