[tgmorris]

Originally Posted by Bill Thebert

That said, here's my suggestion for v 1.7 of this delightful hack. It originated with some feedback from one of my users.

Currently, threads are always displayed *in their entirety*. This causes some minor problems when someone resurrects an old, long thread. The thread (with 50-100 individual posts or more) pops to the top of the page, and one must scroll down through the ancient material to find the one new post appended at the bottom (or somewhere in the middle).

This is especially problematic if the long thread is "sticky" -- since you ALWAYS have to do this scrolling. And doubly so if you have vB Options set to show sticky threads on ALL pages of a forum -- rather than just on the FIRST page.

I would like to see "Threaded Forum Views 1.7" take the other user-specified display options into account. That is, if I've asked to see only messages "from the last two days", then truncate the threads shown in forumdisplay.php acordingly -- much like WebBBS 5.12 does now. Let "Page 2" show the next two days, and "Page 3" show the two days before that.

I understand that this will cause some longer threads to appear in fragments -- in different locations. But when I click on a specific thread, the WHOLE thread is visible in the "threaded mode" showthread.php from Jelsoft. That provides me access to the parts of the thread that *aren't* on the 2-day forumdisplay.php output.

The biggest strength of WebBBS was in the virtually infinite personal choices it offered to each user in terms of customizing the display according to one's individual preferences. I would like to see "threaded Forum Views" become even more "WebBBS-like" in how it handles threads that span long time periods and many, many messages.

Bill

Let me say that I agree with you 100% on this. That said, it may be beyond my vb and PHP abilities to make these changes. Yet with such changes it would be a really 1st class hack

Since the basic modification was so ridiculously simple to do hopefully Jelsoft will chose to fold it, along with the other changes, in to 3.1.

I'll finish by saying that I do plan to continue thinking about the best way to deal with the existing problems of long threads, etc.