[tommythejoat]

This thread should probably be merged with mine on "is the thread structure broken." They are really the same topic that is troubling our NAWCC Message Board.

The feature Bill is describing is an add on which I found here, but in a discussion, not a formal add on since it only required one very small plugin. I have not been able to find the thread where I originally found it a few years ago.

However, I think the thread structure is broken in the sense that reply to post and reply to thread do not function logically.

Any message board that support threaded or hybrid thread viewing will demonstrate the behavior. The post graph for any thread will show a cascade of reply posts instead of references back to the first post when the user click on reply to thread.

The developer may have thought they were doing it the right way, but back in the old days of threaded message boards, it was clearly understood that subtopics of a thread would display in an alternate branch while responses to the main topic would reference it in the graph.

This board only supports linear view, so it is not possible to show the problem clearly here.