Posted by Frank on 6/4/2007, 2:23 pm, in reply to "View all"

Ah! This is evidence of a very welcome effort to make a big step in the right direction. Congratulations, and thanks for the effort. However, it seems worth noting that the improvement does not come easily: on my 1024 x 768 size screen the texts of subsequent replies soon start to become partially invisible beyond the right-hand edge. A fairly extreme example would be the following long thread: http://members.boardhost.com/paruresisUK/thread/1159261740.html , especially when you scroll to around two thirds down the thread. The appearance of a horizontal slide bar does not help in this case, apart from the fact that the slide-bar solution in itself often is quite annoying. Maybe we can do away with the visible side-stepping in a thread altogether. More often than not posters post their reply subsequent to the last entry, even if it is in fact intended as a reply to an earlier post. This could better be done by stating at the beginning of a post something like: “In reply to .... , more or less like now, but then with a proper indication of the actual post (with poster’s name and date, or so). Currently nearly all posts refer to the thread name introduced bij the Thread Starter. Thanks for the now, and I trust this matter will get the attention it needs. Also, this is an initial reaction, based on first impressions.

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