[braid] add ability to branch / fork / reply to a message in a conversation

[braid-sync]

have UI in a message to allow fork

at minimum, would be nice to be able to fork retrospectively
(ie. someone messaged in thread, but then someone else can instead make it a fork)

would want to show ‘forks / replies’, on the message, which would then show a separate thread/convo

the new convo would have “re: [link to previous thread]” at the top

[braid-sync]

➤ Braid Sync Bot commented:
wade 22-01-2016:

It would be good to find the previous chats that a new tag/idea originated from. On Discourse you can reply as a linked topic. Sort of the same idea just a different implementation.

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#commenter rafd
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[braid-sync]

➤ Braid Sync Bot commented:

• would need a way to see forked messages from the original message
• "fork" could probably have a better name, ex "reply" (?)

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#commenter rafd
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[cauebs]

I love the idea of forking. What about allowing only one fork per message? If you fork that into a new conversation, the Fork icon now takes you to the newly created conversation. Maybe I missed some use cases you had in mind, but this way the idea of forking seems pretty easy to understand.

Besides forks, I personally think replies help bring the chat together, removing ambiguities that might arise because someone sent a message just before yours, or because the message you're addressing has already been buried by others. I use telegram daily and their solution is simple and effective: a message can be a reply to another message, as simple as that. It's only a link to a previous message (maybe notifying whoever wrote it). What do you guys think?