On my forum, I don’t see a “view as flat” option like in the example screenshot.
For me, I need flat as the global default, with nested being an optional view that users can use when they want to, with flat always being readily available.
As long as it’s a “view as nested” button which people can toggle back off, this would be great. A per-user setting to switch to nested as the default would also be great as long as they can switch individual topics or all topics back to flat at will.
Without adequate controls to toggle between views, I’ll have to stick to flat.
I actually completely removed the view as flat option. It was around for our internal testing so we could compare flat vs nested view easily. We saw no value in keep it around so it’s now gone.
Reddit-style UI is good, but I see another design like:
- A: ...
- B: ...
- C → B: ...
- D → C: ...
In China, this pattern is used by almost all forums / social media platforms. It also collapses all nested posts except for the first one. I think it can avoid distracting and can be an option
Hello,
I find this feature really great, greatly improving the readability of a conversation.
However, though I may have missed a setting, I have two remarks:
When a reply is moderated, a high-level user (moderator, admin, etc.) no longer sees the moderated messages (automatically or not) grayed out. They appear normally. The grayed-out mode for these messages is a real plus for quickly identifying them.
When I reply to a conversation, a filter hides the formatting bar of the reply, also hiding the option to attach an image, for example:
