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2006-06-07, 7:10 PM #1

bradsh

Registered User

Posts: 1,583

Have you guys ever seen or used threaded mode? You can do it by changing your display options to "threaded". It's really cool but it needs some work. I'm going to work on making it more like the comments system at shacknews.com

Hopefully I can make an entire alternate forum view that more resembles their setup (at shacknews) because it's really slick.

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2006-06-07, 7:15 PM #2

Tracer

El Duderino.

Posts: 6,321

Are you Osiris?

COUCHMAN IS BACK BABY

2006-06-07, 7:17 PM #3

genk

doot!

Posts: 10,781

i think it looks ugly as sin

Holy soap opera Batman. - FGR
DARWIN WILL PREVENT THE DOWNFALL OF OUR RACE. - Rob
Free Jin!

2006-06-07, 7:17 PM #4

bradsh

Registered User

Posts: 1,583

yes i am osiris

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2006-06-07, 7:18 PM #5

bradsh

Registered User

Posts: 1,583

a typical reaction, but the usefulness, the usefulness!!!! If i can get it to display all of the threads in this form at once on a single page, you could browse the entire forums on a single page!

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2006-06-07, 7:20 PM #6

Tracer

El Duderino.

Posts: 6,321

Wow, I had no idea there were all these options in the cp. You can actually make the forums display the correct time on all posts. But I guess everybody knew that like six years ago or something.

Also, I was screwing around with the options and now I have this quick reply box at the bottom of each thread. How do I get rid of that?
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COUCHMAN IS BACK BABY

2006-06-07, 7:21 PM #7

Jarl

Clean-Shaven and Baby-Smooth

Posts: 2,483

*Reads thread, changes profile, clicks main forum button*
Huh, doesn't look any different...
*Clicks "Discussion Forum"*
It's not that bad... actually, it's exactly the same... weird...
*Clicks this thread*
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!! BAD VIEW! BAD FORUM!

-*landfish*

2006-06-07, 7:22 PM #8

dalf

Everyone's favorite alcoholic administrator!

Posts: 8,683

Eewww. I don't like threaded mode.

Code to the left of him, code to the right of him, code in front of him compil'd and thundered. Programm'd at with shot and $SHELL. Boldly he typed and well. Into the jaws of C. Into the mouth of PERL. Debug'd the 0x258.

2006-06-07, 7:26 PM #9

bradsh

Registered User

Posts: 1,583

i'm still working on making it less ugly

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2006-06-07, 7:26 PM #10

tofu

(Not an) Administrator

Posts: 2,867

threaded mode sucks

2006-06-07, 7:27 PM #11

Darkjedibob

From Accounting

Posts: 4,280

I hate threaded mode. And when was this quick reply thing added?

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2006-06-07, 7:27 PM #12

Jarl

Clean-Shaven and Baby-Smooth

Posts: 2,483

It's not the aesthetics, it's just plain a bad way to present information.

-Maybe if it had, like, a little preview of the post under the title name (like when you search for posts), or if you could just click on a post and the post would, like, unfold like a menu right under it without the page changing.

2006-06-07, 7:29 PM #13

Tibby

Ribberium Mempyre!

Posts: 12,497

Wham! QUICK REPLIED! Any how i think its uglier and more annoying then "Guestameted"

2006-06-07, 7:30 PM #14

bradsh

Registered User

Posts: 1,583

so youre saying if the post popped up when you hovered over it? i can look into that.

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2006-06-07, 7:31 PM #15

money•bie

••ps, I did it again

Posts: 2,735

Reminds me of IMDB.

In other words, a cesspool of retarded chimpanzees.

Also: Hybrid mode is slightly better

2006-06-07, 7:31 PM #16

landfish

'splodes

Posts: 4,543

Originally posted by bearded_jarl:

when did i get involved in this?

free(jin);
tofu sucks

2006-06-07, 7:33 PM #17

bradsh

Registered User

Posts: 1,583

it doesnt work very well right now because people just reply to any given post instead of replying by subject matter

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2006-06-07, 8:09 PM #18

Obi_Kwiet

It's Stuart, Martha Stuart

Posts: 7,943

So, instead of easily scrolling through the thread you have to click on each post individually? That's just lame.

2006-06-07, 8:11 PM #19

Yecti

Actually That Big

Posts: 4,084

Threaded mode confuses me. I like the quote system much better than actually replying to individual posts like each thread is a seperate forum, and each post a thread. egh. What a nightmare.

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2006-06-07, 8:31 PM #20

Cool Matty

Usuyami no Sekai

Posts: 15,246

I never could, and I never will be able to stand threaded view. It ruins the whole concept of an ongoing discussion.

2006-06-07, 8:47 PM #21

Jarl

Clean-Shaven and Baby-Smooth

Posts: 2,483

Originally posted by 7:

when did i get involved in this?

Threaded mode was so hideous I 'sploded.

-But yeah, rollovers making posts appear might make it better. Not insta-appear, because if you're just moving your mouse over the post, it would be annoying, but, like, a three second delay or something. Or make the delay cusomizable.

2006-06-07, 9:26 PM #22

Chewbubba

Corrupting the Nation's Youth.

Posts: 4,034

Threaded.

Mode.

Is.

Ugly.

"Harriet, sweet Harriet - hard-hearted harbinger of haggis."

2006-06-08, 1:41 AM #23

lassev

Tells It Like It Is

Posts: 2,827

I once visited one forum that had enabled the threaded mode as a default between the times I visited the place, and I seriously thought the forums had either broken down or made it so that only registered members could actually really read the forums. Fortunately I finally noticed the option.

Frozen in the past by ICARUS

2006-06-08, 1:56 AM #24

Freelancer

Peelancer

Posts: 15,012

threaded mode sucks because all the people who use flat mode don't bother to respond to the proper post. Also, the view is in a tiny little window which sucks.

"it is time to get a credit card to complete my financial independance" — Tibby, Aug. 2009

2006-06-08, 2:15 AM #25

Jarl

Clean-Shaven and Baby-Smooth

Posts: 2,483

In flat mode you don't get a frikking choice as to who you reply to unless it's with a quote.
Until now, when you have to choose in order to quick reply.

-At least... I don't think you had a choice before...

2006-06-08, 2:20 AM #26

Delphian

It's crystal-clear to him.T

Posts: 2,647

Yikes, threaded is pretty damn annoying. Though useful, in some cases....I will never use it though. :\

2006-06-08, 2:21 AM #27

- Tony -

Not satisfied.

Posts: 4,773

It makes Baby Zombie Jesus cry.

Hey, Blue? I'm loving the things you do. From the very first time, the fight you fight for will always be mine.

2006-06-08, 2:46 AM #28

Acharjay

Quick! Someone call a doctor!g

Posts: 2,498

What gave it away?

"Well ain't that a merry jelly." - FastGamerr

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2006-06-08, 4:11 AM #29

Impi

THX

Posts: 4,686

Threading on forums is like reading newsgroups flat.
The two things have their uses in their environment.

Sorry for the lousy German

2006-06-08, 5:54 AM #30

..would like a shrubbery.

Posts: 4,822

threaded mode sucks. It takes 20 times longer to read a thread... and all the posts are out of order.

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2006-06-08, 6:26 AM #31

Masq

Posts: 1,001

Threaded mode is useful when all participants in the discussion know how to use it properly. We had an online component for a philosophy course I took last year, and while the threaded discussion could have been extremely useful to keep the discussion in order, it was used improperly like 70% of the time... making things substantially worse.

And yes, any similarity to the IMDB boards is dubiously beneficial.

2006-06-08, 7:14 AM #32

I am the Stig

Posts: 10,922

Meh, i guess ill try it. The Hybrid mode is a little less confusing

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2006-06-08, 10:29 AM #33

Pommy

Lommy Dommy

Posts: 5,773

Quick reply (/threaded functionality) makes everything really confusing whenever someone posts on more than one subject or adds a little blurb at the end

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2006-06-08, 2:14 PM #34

genk

doot!

Posts: 10,781

this is what i hate the most about the thread system /. uses, you can't see the witty posts, you MIGHT get to see a large and highly informative one every so often, but for the majority of replies it is too damn confusing to get to see the whole reply tree. Threaded views waste bandwith, would you rather view each page and have 30-40 posts there, or have to load a page for every damn reply?

i just noticed the minimize quick reply button, yay

Holy soap opera Batman. - FGR
DARWIN WILL PREVENT THE DOWNFALL OF OUR RACE. - Rob
Free Jin!

2006-06-08, 2:38 PM #35

..would like a shrubbery.

Posts: 4,822

quick reply would be alright if it actually let you reply without clicking a post first.

Cant it just be set to the last post unless you click one?

2006-06-08, 2:54 PM #36

mscbuck

"You Would Have Been BALEETED..."

Posts: 3,897

Threaded mode = ewwww

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