Re: Threaded or Individual Messages? Communitiy Input Wanted.
- Posted by DerekParnell (admin) Aug 14, 2009
- 1030 views
It's clear that some people like the individual subject listing. I am wondering which should be the default. The existing method Topic List shows topics, not individual message subjects. Here is a quick demo of what the individual subject list would look like:
| Subject | Author | When |
|---|---|---|
| Re: 4.0 Beta 1 - DOS error | someone_else | 5 minutes ago |
| Re: New Website | jeremy | 2 hours ago |
| Re: New Website | DerekParnell | 2 hours ago |
| 4.0 Beta 1 - DOS error | someone | 3 hours ago |
| New Website | jeremy | 3 hours ago |
Just to clarify, I see this as a message list and not a subject list. That is, it is a list of messages (in time order) rather than a list of subjects (otherwise known as topics). The current view to me is a subject list, because it shows a list of subjects (topics) which need to be clicked to expand into a list of messages, (headers and body) within a subject. Your use of "subject", to me, is really "message header".
Then, when clicking on one of those, it will display that single message. You can choose to go to Previous Message or Next Message from the individual message view. So, if you were on "New Website", there is no previous message (in this example). Clicking on the "Next Message" link would take you to "4.0 Beta 1 - DOS error", etc...
I don't care what is the initial default, so long as I can record my preference in my profile and the forum will respect my profile setting each time I come to the forum.
