Any "threaded" type forum hacks out there?

[Lynne]

I have not seen a modification that makes a forum show up like that. But it just looks like you need to replace the threadbit template with a new template that spits out the first post of the thread along with the comment numbers, etc. You'd have to modify the query also. I think it's probably doable, but may take a bit of playing around to get it to look how you want.