Indicate large time gaps between posts in a topic

[elijah (Eli the Bearded)]

Sounds like it would fit well with this old idea:

Natural breakpoints or "chapters" for long topics?

One thing we’re thinking about is how to determine natural breakpoints or “chapters” for long discussion topics – and we can eventually display these breakpoints as navigation selections on the expanded topic progress bar. Say you have a 500+ post topic that you want to explore. How do you do that? [image] One way is to use our “summarize topic” function, which uses our internal topic hotness algorithm to produce the reader’s digest condensed version of the topic – by stripping out 80% of t…