I still think there needs to be a setting to allow users to set a default view of threaded. The way that rss.chat does this is the same as micro.blog and twitter before it amd all are inconisted with message boards and bbs The challenge is working out notification of threads that have been updated. I would just bump the parent and responses up to the top. I think fundamentally threaded messages and rivers/timelines are incompatible but that may just be me.
in my mind chat is real time messaging, which is not this. To me this is more accurately described and a message board / forum that uses rss. RSS really doesn’t need to be in the name beyond making a point.
I also agree that there should be a way to default to a threaded view. I would also like to have some notification when someone comments on a post I have made.
I am still trying to get straight in my mind what rss.chat is supposed to be or supposed to do. My gut feeling is that it is to show that RSS can be the basis for a social network application. My reaction - who cares? People want to know about the benefits of the tool, not that RSS was a key part of how the tool is built. I will have more on that in a blog post soon.