Threading threads
 

I am toying with the idea to actually make threads be displayed threaded.

I am fairly new to vbulletin. But, thinking outloud, I do not foresee huge trouble storing a message-id field to each new post, and, just like with a true threaded reader, display replies indented relative to the parent post.

All that would be required is one extra MySQL query per thread to preload all message-ids, so they can then be displayed in threaded order. Plus, I would need to make some changes to the code that tells you when a user has replied to your thread (and really to YOUR post, and not just to every one in the global thread).

Unless I am overseeing something drastic, this idea does not seem overly undoable.

I would appreciate some feedback on the possibility/desireability to do this. If many pepple want it, I will make it.

- Mark

System Administrator Asarian-host.org

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"If you were supposed to understand it,
we wouldn't call it code." - FedEx

it'll suck up all your bandwidth

Since we even don't know when we get public Beta
( can be even the end of the year
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...356#post325356 )
it would be just great if soneone made a hack for threaded view
( i'm very unhappy with "flat"... )

Oh, and i don't worry about the traffic ;)

I could not make this hack alone,
but may be a friend will help me...

Guess there will be just one column in vB3, where the post-ids
to which post(parent) the current post is connected ( as answer ),
in the post-table, right ?

Could anyone tell what is the name of this new column in vB3 ?

No one has seen vB3, so you won't be able to know. But just as a guess, I'd say it's called parentid.

I understand, that almost everyone here havent seen vB3 yet,
but do you mean - you have not seen it too ?
I thought it could not be a big secret what the name this new column has...
<--- looking for this smiley with question marks

You got your answer already.

Oh, thank you,
I'm probably feeling too bad now ( ok, my own business... ),
so <edit>overlooked</edit> the joke...
sorry