Originally Posted by
Jarhead
Now we are getting somewhere. DukieBoy has hit on something, and it is encouraging, -jk, that you are giving some thought to the problem. A while back, a separate forum was created for a topic that had everyone's attention as it muddied the waters of the OT forum. That would be the LAX forum. It isolated an important, but otherwise frustrating topic, and let it run its course. Thankfully, it eventually went away. However it serves as an example of how things like th AR thread can be put in a place for enthusiastic followers of the topic to thrive. Then when AR makes his decision the forum goes to the archives.
One of the things I liked about the old Sagarmatha software was the ability to show a thread in a hierarchal format in which all of the sub-threads kind of hung together. Sometime ago a professional organization to which I belonged had a member designed bbs for members only. It required that each post in a thread be attached to a prior post, or by default, attached to the originating post in a thread. On opening a thread, you chose either a chronological list, or a tree structure. This tree structure made it easier for you to drill down to the parts of the thread that interests you. Beyond that it was rather basic. I don't know what happened to the system. I lost interest when I retired, and the bbs seems to have vanished.