VOTE: Threaded view - YES or NO?

[zone6]

I'm a more frequent reader than participant, so my view is less important than some of the frequent flyers. I know when I come here that I have to change how I read and search the posts compared to more "conventional" forum formatting, which I interpret to be "flat." But overall, for me, flat is easier to follow.

 

[grsnovi]

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[grsnovi]

you can't get it by just clicking the post above yours.

There are sites that allow you to just highlight the bit that you want to respond to and click REPLY and just that bit gets copied into your reply. That works well on non-threaded sites.

 

[chrisfisheye]

I hate threaded view

It is currently simply an option...

Many people do like it, this means that everybody can be satisfied and use the option they prefer.

 

[chrisfisheye]

Hello,

Please keep threaded view.

I always said this was important. When dpreview was about to be stopped, an alternative to dpreview forum was proposed.

I told them many many many times that the threaded view was a MUST. They did not listen to me. Eventually, they tried to include it but it was too late anyway, they had already lost most of their members.

So this is really difficult to understand why dpreview would make such a bad choice.

By the way, thanks to the op for mentioning this point, I did not know about it and I think this would be a big mistake !!!!

 

[petebfrance]

...Leaving the forum because it won't have "threaded view"!

Lots of forums don't have that feature... - or relic.

Sure, I'm mostly in threaded view here on DPR, but I find myself using Flat View quite a bit sometimes. I would imagine that the new format would have the threads set out chronologically, so there's no real problem.

Now, I'm off to lament the fact that humans now only have vestigial tails. Hmm! Maybe I'll move to the moon Pandora...

atom14.

In my opinion, not really as ridiculous as it appears. Yes, to 'flounce off' probably may be considered as a bit daft, but to recognise that without the facility the amount of one's use of the forum may dwindle to none at all is I think reasonable enough.

 

[Hike Pics]

So far that's 23 of us looking for that beer!!

All of my gear is old. There are several of us in that camp. I go back to the old posts where my gear started and read user's comments and maybe see images. Sometimes new posts are made about the older gear but not many respond. So my activity here is fairly low and random compared to users concerned with newer gear.

As long as I can find the info I am looking for (having good search skills and luck required) I do not have any preference to threaded or flat at all.

With that said I do hope the future brings the ability to choose flat or threaded as one wishes, as it is currently.

* Nah.....no beer for me, don't like the stuff. I will take a large glass of cool mother nature made mountain spring water right out of the aquifer!

 

[GeoffRG]

The DPReview team has decided to transform the current forum into a new one.

One of the much discussed side effects is that the threaded view option will be no longer available in this new forum. Some users don't mind, but many users have already expressed their dissatisfaction and are considering leaving the forum.

The DPReview team states that it's not that big of a problem. According to them flat view is also a workable option and users should just get used to it and deal with it. In fact, most users prefer flat view is what DPReview says.

So, why not have a poll and ask what the users really think? What do you think?

PLEASE VOTE below. Feel free to leave a comment.

I can't vote, I won't leave if threaded view isn't available, it should be an option.

 

[Ozzie SD]

Hello,

Please keep threaded view.

I always said this was important. When dpreview was about to be stopped, an alternative to dpreview forum was proposed.

I told them many many many times that the threaded view was a MUST. They did not listen to me. Eventually, they tried to include it but it was too late anyway, they had already lost most of their members.

So this is really difficult to understand why dpreview would make such a bad choice.

By the way, thanks to the op for mentioning this point,

Thanks for your nice comment, much appreciated!

I did not know about it and I think this would be a big mistake !!!!

 

[MoreorLess]

Each to their own and all that but threaded view makes my brain ache, I don't like it and never use it.

If flat view is to be the only option going forward then I totally agree with some other comments about the insane amount of quoting that goes on through a thread. Mods on other forums I've been involved with over the years would step in where people just blindly quote the post immediately above their own comment to which they are replying.

There is of course a place for quoting but it's massively over used here imho and if the DP powers that be are going to do away with threaded view, the flip side of that is they absolutely need to address the over use of quoting.

Even though I like it less I tend to use the threaded view simply because that's what almost everyone else does, using unthreaded often makes it hard to understand discussions going on in threaded.

 

[Stan Disbrow]

Hi,

Exactly. I do not like, or use Flat. Used to be this site had only flat. Made it hard to differentiate subthreads. So Threaded was added. As an option. Which it should remain.

i read very little in any forum for any topic which sports only Flat. The same will apply here if it sports only Flat. I will be in only two low traffic forums In that case.

Stan

 

[ishwanu]

It could be interesting to explore the relationship between an overwhelming preference for a particular view and other factors - like the age of the member, the length of involvement on DPR, the frequency of visits here, the time spent in the forums, the nature of the discussions being joined etc. I don't expect that it could be done, or know what sort of enlightenment would result from it ... but interesting.

When I looked at the poll results yesterday, the number of votes saying the forum must have threaded view outnumbered the other combined categories by about two to one.

Today, the number of votes saying the forum must have threaded view total slightly less than the other combined categories.



What does that indicate? It might indicate that the members who visit most frequently are the members most likely to want threaded view, and other members who don't visit as often (and thus they didn't see the poll until today) don't need threaded view.

Or it might indicate that members who don't need threaded view just take longer to consider the question before voting.

Or ... ?

 

[John Crowe]

If I must quote, I manually copy and paste to my open reply.

 

[AnthonyL]

Sometimes handy to be able to quickly just read one poster's posts with threaded view but I think there are a lot of wasteful posts because the last few posts haven't been read which flat view resolves.

Surprised however that it needs to be an either/or.

 

[bodeswell]

I did. If nothing else, I use it as test to see if I am paying attention.

 

[Brev00]

You didn't notice my error? My joke went for naught?

 

[bodeswell]

You didn't notice my error? My joke went for naught?

 

[Sagittarius]

It could be interesting to explore the relationship between an overwhelming preference for a particular view and other factors - like the age of the member, the length of involvement on DPR, the frequency of visits here, the time spent in the forums, the nature of the discussions being joined etc. I don't expect that it could be done, or know what sort of enlightenment would result from it ... but interesting.

When I looked at the poll results yesterday, the number of votes saying the forum must have threaded view outnumbered the other combined categories by about two to one.

Today, the number of votes saying the forum must have threaded view total slightly less than the other combined categories.



What does that indicate? It might indicate that the members who visit most frequently are the members most likely to want threaded view, and other members who don't visit as often (and thus they didn't see the poll until today) don't need threaded view.

Or it might indicate that members who don't need threaded view just take longer to consider the question before voting.

Or ... ?

They do not go to Open Talk forum. I never use threaded view in my 20 years on DPR and I almost never visit this forum. I found out about this thread on another forum. Now there is an announcement on different forums about this discussion and more people came in to this thread. See how voting results changed. From over 90% vs. 30% in favor of threaded to almost 50/50 now. I do not care which way it will go, I will not leave DPR.

 

[Ozzie SD]

It could be interesting to explore the relationship between an overwhelming preference for a particular view and other factors - like the age of the member, the length of involvement on DPR, the frequency of visits here, the time spent in the forums, the nature of the discussions being joined etc. I don't expect that it could be done, or know what sort of enlightenment would result from it ... but interesting.

When I looked at the poll results yesterday, the number of votes saying the forum must have threaded view outnumbered the other combined categories by about two to one.

Today, the number of votes saying the forum must have threaded view total slightly less than the other combined categories.



What does that indicate? It might indicate that the members who visit most frequently are the members most likely to want threaded view, and other members who don't visit as often (and thus they didn't see the poll until today) don't need threaded view.

Or it might indicate that members who don't need threaded view just take longer to consider the question before voting.

Or ... ?

Or ... the flat view users are lacking behind because they need way more time to read all topics, navigate hundreds of pages, find their replies ... The threaded viewers are way faster and more efficient and therefore able to respond much faster. :-D


Or ... DPReview team is manipulating the numbers. :-D

 

[FrancoD]

Or ... the flat view users are lacking behind because they need way more time to read all topics, navigate hundreds of pages, find their replies ... The threaded viewers are way faster and more efficient and therefore able to respond much faster. :-D

Or ... DPReview team is manipulating the numbers. :-D

and that is the difference. As a flat View user I like to read ALL of the posts before commenting , for example I would feel silly stating "it's an FM2!!!" when 16 others over 6 pages have already pointed that out...