I also use the /all/ catalog by default. Kissu is so slow that it's easy to look over every thread as it's made and the full thread hover previews let you quickly look up the new responses even if there are more than three of them and even reply to them from the catalog. I use index on other slow boards so I can quickly see the new replies without needing to jump into each one, but kissu's catalog provides that functionality and more so there's no need to do it here.
>>121449>for old threads on fast boards, the catalog probably obscures more than it revealsIt should be the opposite. I almost never clicked through every page in the index on 4chan, but I regularly went through the whole catalog. It lets you skim over the OPs faster, which makes it viable to go over each one at the expense of only seeing responses if the OP image/initial text grabs you enough to make you hover over it. I don't think this is a good thing there since it promotes lust-provoking image/irrelevant time-wasting question threads and generals over good discussion threads, but at the same time the front pages of many boards at this point will just be those generals all the time so sorting by time created lets you jump into newer, more novel threads from the catalog.
Also, the big thing with the catalog is that it enables you to follow certain thread topics because you can always see whether something is up about it, which makes people less understanding of duplicate threads and, ironically, makes the fear of missing out or falling behind much worse than with a view where only the most dedicated of browsers can realistically be in every thread. Again, not really an issue with kissu since it's slow enough that you never miss a thread if you come here regularly, but I always feel like that's part of the mindset of people who think finding old threads to resuscitate is better than just making a new one.