Threads don't follow in order

Hi,

that's it, of course. I changed to "Threaded", and suddenly Tony reply was moved to end. This is probably "correct", but it doesn't make sense!!!

Joerg

Hi Tony,

I haven't noticed this yet. Do you have an example?
I just noticed that I wrote almost the same reply as you, but yours seems to come first as it was posted 5 minutes earlier. I think that's correct, isn't it?

Regards

Joerg

Yes I'm looking at this thread now too - I'm not even sure what flat and threaded means, but when I switched to flat and Joerg's went to the bottom.

Normally I would expect the threads show in the order they were replied in.

What "Thread Page View" do you use? I use flat and did't see this so far, but perhaps different "Thread Page View" gives different results.

Flat view rulez!

It all depends on where you reply from. The Reply link is actually replying to that particular message, not the topic. So, it's not really the view that's the problem, it's the person that's replying perhaps not replying in the right place.

Hrvoje Crvelin actually described how threaded discussions have worked since the 80s (and probably before, I know I was familiar with them as early as the 80s though), and I assume this software follows the same convention...

Larry

Hi Tony,

I have been using "flat" all the time, no idea why, actually.

Erich: Do you have any comments? Here is the thread we are talking about.

http://forums.emc.com/forums/thread.jspa?forumID=9&threadID=40201

Regards

Joerg

And, just to further test this, a reply to Flat View Rulez!

Yes, that's the scenario - I've seen it many times here actually. It looks right with flat now, although i suspect most people are in threaded view, as that was the default.

Looks like all flat all the time from here on out.

I'm lame to change the view now to verify what I talk, but when different views were introduced I believe I did notice this one and did change to flat as I didn't like "reply-to-thread" view. If I remember correctly it was something like this:

joerg (1)
  |
  - - hrvoje (2)
  |      |
  |      - - joerg (4)
  |               
tony (3)

Above you see Joerg starting thread, then I reply and then tony. However 4th reply coming from Joerg won't below Tony, but rather above he did reply my message and that "tree" of thread is shown above. Or something like that - can't remember now, but that was my first impression of it when I saw it and did change it (as I was used to see latest update latest and not suddenly in the middle).

Testing - so this will insert before your reply.

Yes, I see it working that way. The hard part is you may have somebody replying to the original post, not realizing there is a reply out there already, and they can get pushed off the screen.

Still looks like all flat all the time.

Hi everyone,

we did discuss this once in the early post-upgrade days.

I don't think there a single "right way" for everyone. The "Flat" view list the conversation in chronological order, whereas the "Thread" view takes context into account. I happen to prefer to this last format, as I find the chronological view sometimes loses the meaning in a back-and-forth dialog when it intermingles with an unrelated branch in the discussion. This also makes it easier, from a moderation perspective, to understand the impact of branching off a side-discussion into it's own thread.

But, as I said, it's a matter of preference.

People obviously prefer one or the other... no one seems to like the "Tree' view... I wonder why.

Thanks,
Erich