</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by Rick Baker:
[QUOTE]And in the case of having an option to disable threaded mode, it just doesn't make sense since for the reason stated above which is why it's called .threads <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" /> </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Hi Rick, many thanks for the reply. With regards to Threadsd view, I understand that it's quite a unique feature to this software, but Threads is also the middle product between Classic and Open Topic.

When Classic users upgrade to Threads they are forced to use this "strange" (for some people...) threaded-setup with topics going in all sorts of directions. Then when they upgrade from Threads to Open Topic... they lose this feature altogether. For that reason I would rather not use a feature that I will simply have to take away from my users during the next "big step".

I think some users are so desperate about switching this off, that in addition to posting requests about this they've also experimented with templates to disable this feature. Should such a template be properly done and endorsed by Infopop/yourself, things would be so much easier for many of us.

Nobody knows the technical aspects of Threads better than you, so here goes... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" /> Wouldn't it be possible to make a template where there would be one reply button that would either A) make each reply to the first message of the thread -OR- B) make each reply to the last message in the thread (depending on which way is better - probably the first because post deletion would be easier, no - or is it the other way around?). Also, the post message template would not include the subject field, so users will not be able to change it when replying to someone's topic.

This would of course be just an additional template available with the software, and would in no way have an impact on existing Threads users who utilize this feature.

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