The lively discussion supported the view that users should be able to define their own link types. The unstructured and tangled nature of links in many WWW systems is a source of frustration to users and administrators alike. There is certainly no significant data model for WWW, and in many ways first generation systems may rightly be likened to novice programs that used too many GO TO statements. Hyper-G thus imposes structure on top of a flat file database. Most significantly, it provides users with an alternative to link browsing.
Users navigate up and down hierarchies and thus can follow the inherent structures.
Loss of orientation encountered by users. This means that any document can belong to multiple collections - without duplication of content. ZOOM-IN opens a collection to display the underlying content. Also, since at any moment of time a stack of open S-collections may exist it is easy to generate a meaningful graphical trace. Also recursive membership is both possible and meaningful.