That’s exactly what I was aiming for Eri, so I appreciate hearing it. Currently the software is mostly being used at the university to create blog-like environments, which tend to be quiet and somewhat passive, but its forum personality is designed with the Zone in mind.

My “gold standard” scenario is one of those episodes where lots of people join in on a thread at about the same time. Usually it’s a Punic War (get it? arh arh), where everybody’s trying to get their words posted ASAP, and you can almost see the tree grow in realtime. Every time you post a comment, the tree gets refreshed, so you’ll see other people commenting as you go. Sort of a tree-shaped chat system, if you push it that way. That is what I call a discussion, and that’s what I was designing for.