Dear web 2.0 coolios,

Please stop writing comment systems with half-assed threading. I understand you had to replace all those icky newsgroups on usenet, but you could have done a better job.

Take a look at Google Groups, Gmane. See how all those conversations are nicely grouped together? See how nobody is writing @previous_author? Please sort it out, because the status quo doesn’t work.

Sincerely, Alex Willmer

P.S. To anyone commenting here: I know I’m not eating my own dog food. I am ashamed.