Complaints About New Forum Version

[Greg J]

I would love to see this fixed too. This is driving me insane.

[imported_Chuck Weinstock]

Find a shortish thread (say 3/4 replies and 2/3 levels of nesting) and agree among yourselves what the appropriate order of display should be and I'll see what I can do. I don't want to hear individual suggestions, I want to hear a consensus.

Chuck

[BottlesOf]

I don't understand how there is any doubt? A person should be indented one notch to the right from the person they're responding to, and immediately below that person. Multiple people responding to the same person should stack on top of each other, probably most recent on top. How else would it be done?

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I don't understand how there is any doubt? A person should be indented one notch to the right from the person they're responding to, and immediately below that person. Multiple people responding to the same person should stack on top of each other, probably most recent on top. How else would it be done?

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Yes anything else would be weird.

Basically it should be in the same order it was before the upgrade.

[bobbyi]

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A person should be indented one notch to the right from the person they're responding to, and immediately below that person. Multiple people responding to the same person should stack on top of each other, probably most recent on top.

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Yeah. The only debatable part is the "most recent on top". I perfer it the other way because the natural way to read through them is from top to bottom and it makes sense to read the older replies before the newer ones.

[BruceZ]

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I don't understand how there is any doubt? A person should be indented one notch to the right from the person they're responding to, and immediately below that person.

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Of course.


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Multiple people responding to the same person should stack on top of each other,

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Of course.


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probably most recent on top. How else would it be done?

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With most recent on bottom, which was the way it was once upon a time. I'd be willing to live with this either way, but one problem that needs to be fixed is that when you click on a post in threaded mode, it should bring up the post that you clicked on, not the first unread post.

I noticed that one long standing problem seems to have been fixed with this upgrade, and that is that when you bring up a post in threaded mode, the order of the displayed posts no longer changes. In other words, the order of the posts once you are reading a post is the same as it was in the index. Please do not break this again.

In other words, make it exactly the way it was before the upgrade (except for retaining the above mentioned improvement) and it looks like we have a consensus.

[imported_Chuck Weinstock]

Do ANY of you use threaded mode? It seems to me that it is easy to tell who is responding to who in threaded mode, but nearly impossible in flat mode. Am I correct, or are you guys complaining about something else altogether?

[timprov]

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Do ANY of you use threaded mode? It seems to me that it is easy to tell who is responding to who in threaded mode, but nearly impossible in flat mode. Am I correct, or are you guys complaining about something else altogether?

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I'm pretty sure they're talking about threaded mode.

I find it ridiculously easy to follow the conversations in flat mode. The one time in 5000 or so I'm confused, there's the little link to help me.

[BottlesOf]

Yea it's easy to tell, but it's incorrect, as is evident from the post I made. It appears to be one thing, but then when I click to read it changes, as I pointed out in my above posted.

[AngryCola]

We were all talking about threaded mode.