Joey 
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Maybe if you're going by the definition on Wikipedia, but it's not exactly clear what the article on imageboards means by "linear"
The way I view it is that Booru-style imageboards are linear, because:
1) Posts (Images) are, by default, ordered in a reverse-chronological state
based on time of creation
2) Posts (Images) exist only at one level, and new posts cannot be added as replies to other posts.
This means that you can start at one end and keep clicking "next" until you reach the other end, and everything will remain in a consistent order, making it very easy to view everything. So if we look at the hierarchy of a Booru-style imageboard, the posts (which are always images) form a neat, ordered line:
In comparison, Futaba-style imageboards strike me as more of a nonlinear, nested structure, as:
1) Posts can be at two levels - Top Level/OP (Images) and Reply (Images or Text)
2) Top Level Posts are ordered chronologically based on the age of thenlatewest reply
This causes the order of top level posts to shift around constantly as replies are added. So if you start viewing one thread, the thread that was metaphorically "next" may get a reply and jump back to the top of the structure, causing you to miss it if you click next. This makes it very difficult to view everything on even a moderately-active board, as content is constantly shifting order and may be nested inside other content:
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Maybe if you're going by the definition on Wikipedia, but it's not exactly clear what the article on imageboards means by "linear"
The way I view it is that Booru-style imageboards are linear, because:
1) Posts (Images) are, by default, ordered in a reverse-chronological state
2) Posts (Images) exist only at one level, and new posts cannot be added as replies to other posts.
This means that you can start at one end and keep clicking "next" until you reach the other end, and everything will remain in a consistent order, making it very easy to view everything. So if we look at the hierarchy of a Booru-style imageboard, the posts (which are always images) form a neat, ordered line:
 Posts can be at two levels - Top Level/OP (Images) and Reply (Images or Text)
2) Top Level Posts are ordered chronologically based on the age of the
This causes the order of top level posts to shift around constantly as replies are added. So if you start viewing one thread, the thread that was metaphorically "next" may get a reply and jump back to the top of the structure, causing you to miss it if you click next. This makes it very difficult to view everything on even a moderately-active board, as content is constantly shifting order and may be nested inside other content:
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