[Bill Thebert]

Time for me to contribute my 2/100 of a buck.

I've been lobbying Jelsoft for two years or more about delivering the OPTION of a threaded display at the forum level (forumdisplay.php). Back in October of 2001, vB developer "Freddie" stated that "threading" was going to be implemented in the next major vB release, which was expected to be out in Q1 of 2002.

Needless to say, it was pretty disappointing to see the half-baked implementation of "threading" [sic] that Jelsoft finally released nearly two years later.

This hack is a godsend. And it's getting better with each incremental release.

I'm not going to argue with anybody about whether "threaded views" are old-fashioned, or whether "flat views" are "better". The objective here is CHOICE. This hack allows vB3.X to finally offer users a CHOICE about how they wish forums to be displayed. And I think we can all agree that "choice = good".

My hat's off to Tom for finishing what Jelsoft only started. This should *definitely* be integrated into the core vB product. Should've been there ages ago. Tom's hack is good. It delivers on its promise. It is well documented, and Tom's support has been both prompt and professional.

Regards,

Bill