the_ocean
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Is there a way to make this forum show replies in a tree view within a thread? I have searched and I think there is no way to do it. I think this feature would immensely improve the flow of conversations on SB.
As we all have experienced, a long thread on SB quickly devolves into confusion and loses value:
* People miss valuable contributions because they're buried in 80 pages of posts
* Posts addressing the OP are mixed with off-topic banter, all linearly displayed.
* Mods have to come in and "break it up" by manually branching threads and such
The root of the problem is that posts don't point back back to parent posts, and there is not a way to visually display posts in a nested tree view (and collapse tree branches). A thread can branch off into many sub-conversations, all of which are collapsed into a linear flow sorted by time.
As we all have experienced, a long thread on SB quickly devolves into confusion and loses value:
* People miss valuable contributions because they're buried in 80 pages of posts
* Posts addressing the OP are mixed with off-topic banter, all linearly displayed.
* Mods have to come in and "break it up" by manually branching threads and such
The root of the problem is that posts don't point back back to parent posts, and there is not a way to visually display posts in a nested tree view (and collapse tree branches). A thread can branch off into many sub-conversations, all of which are collapsed into a linear flow sorted by time.