THIS IS NO LONGER A TEST! Threaded vs Non-Threaded Replies

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- 09/25/2015 at 9:12 PM #2765
  Tony (admin)
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  An option I have here for the reply format is “threaded” vs “non-threaded.” In threaded replies the reply is indented from the post the person is replying to. Unfortunately the best example of this I can think of is at cougarboard, with the little lines on the left of the replies. The issue with the threading is when there are more and more replies to replies, the indenting gets out of control and mushes the content into a narrow window. It is especially bad on mobile. I fixed up the mobile a bit, but it’s not great. The replies, not matter how many there are, go on forever with no “next page” or paging. That’s kind of lame. Below is a threaded example.
  
  The thing I LIKE about the threading is that you can somewhat tell who is replying to who.
  
  A few minutes ago I switched threading off. It makes the replies, all posts, align vertically. It is much more sharp looking and displays awesome on mobile without ever squishing the posts into smaller and smaller pieces. It also adds paging which I can control, so like 10 posts and then you hit “next page” or #2 or whatever. Below is a non-threaded example.
  
  I like non-threaded because it looks better, especially on mobile. The drawback is that I can’t tell who replied to who…. They’re just all replies under one topic.
  
  Let me know what you think. I’m trying to make it better and both have their good and bad points.
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- 09/25/2015 at 9:26 PM #2770
  
  Tacoma Ute
  Participant
  
  Personally I like the threaded but whatever the most people like is fine.
  - 09/25/2015 at 9:27 PM #2771
    
    Wilson’s Mustache
    Participant
    
    Same here, I like the threaded. It was a nice medium. It is hard to see who replied to who & it gets too clicky having to go from one page to another IMO.
  - 09/25/2015 at 10:51 PM #2792
    
    Newbomb Turk
    Participant
    
    I like threaded
- 09/25/2015 at 9:37 PM #2772
  
  jrj84105
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  Threaded.
- 09/25/2015 at 9:40 PM #2773
  
  Virginia Ute
  Participant
  
  Threaded vote here. Or maybe there’s a way to put that as a feature for some users to turn on.
- 09/25/2015 at 9:45 PM #2777
  
  Tony (admin)
  Keymaster
  
  Test over. Back to threaded.
- 09/25/2015 at 9:47 PM #2781
  
  GadValleyUte
  Participant
  
  Tony this site just gets better every day. Thanks for your hard work. Also I k ow you’ve already made the call but I vote threaded too
- 09/25/2015 at 9:58 PM #2782
  
  Tony (admin)
  Keymaster
  
  Hopefully the Utes will win just like threaded did…
- 09/25/2015 at 10:09 PM #2783
  
  Tony (admin)
  Keymaster
  
  I tweaked the threaded format a tiny bit. The indents are smaller and there can be 10, not 5 of them. That should help prevent the content from getting smashed to the right.
- 09/25/2015 at 10:30 PM #2788
  
  LiquidUte
  Participant
  
  It seems better from the changes you made. Befoe, stuff was getting pretty smashed to the right. Now, not so bad. Thanks.
- 09/25/2015 at 10:35 PM #2790
  
  BioUte
  Participant
  
  It’s hard for me to see the threaded view now. Any way to change the background color if it’s a reply? Kind of like this?
- 09/26/2015 at 7:33 AM #2825
  
  Tony (admin)
  Keymaster
  
  Hey @BioUte that’s definitely possible. I’ll have to look at the structure of the main topics and their replies, but what you are showing above, or something closer, could be doable.
  
  Thanks @LiquidUte. Someone over at another site was saying UH sucked because of that issue. Guess it doesn’t suck anymore. 🙂
- 09/26/2015 at 9:53 AM #2867
  
  UGLI baby
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  Non threaded. 100,000,000%
  
  With it threaded, someone makes a reply but you open up the thread and can’t tell where, because it’s somewhere in the middle of all the responses. So the newest post in a thread can go unseen if it’s someone responding to something from a while back.
  
  A message board should flow like a real life conversation, which would be best represented by non threaded, and quoting people’s posts when you reply to them.
- 09/26/2015 at 10:08 AM #2872
  
  JDub1942
  Participant
  
  No opinion. You’re welcome.
- 09/26/2015 at 10:20 AM #2875
  
  Tony (admin)
  Keymaster
  
  When things are settled here I may end up using some of my rusty PHP skills to create some different options.
- 09/26/2015 at 11:21 AM #2899
  
  5150
  Participant
  
  Personally, I definitely prefer the threading. Thank you for all the hard work, and asking for (and listening to) feedback from the masses.
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