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One major difference between the old and new Think Tank is that the old used a threaded view, the new uses a flat view.
Threaded view is an excellent method of looking at only one single post in a message thread. What it does not do is preserve the time sequence of the postings. What then happens is that a member will see a post and want to make a reply to it, and being in threaded view will not see that it may have been answered 2, 3, or more times already. The solution to this is to use a flat view.
Additionally the threaded view utilized too much viewing space, while the flat view has one line per topic, with summary information available.
Another plus for the flat view layout is that if someone wants to follow a topic conversation, they will only need to click once. The threaded view requires a click for every response.
In flat view, every time someone replies to a topic, that topic will move to the top of the list. This is an ideal solution to keep active topics highly visible.
Threaded view is an excellent method of looking at only one single post in a message thread. What it does not do is preserve the time sequence of the postings. What then happens is that a member will see a post and want to make a reply to it, and being in threaded view will not see that it may have been answered 2, 3, or more times already. The solution to this is to use a flat view.
Additionally the threaded view utilized too much viewing space, while the flat view has one line per topic, with summary information available.
Another plus for the flat view layout is that if someone wants to follow a topic conversation, they will only need to click once. The threaded view requires a click for every response.
In flat view, every time someone replies to a topic, that topic will move to the top of the list. This is an ideal solution to keep active topics highly visible.