How do you view?

[jamesjermain]

Out of curiosity how do most of you view post - threaded or flat?

I ask because it can make a difference to the way one phrases a post depending on whether it is immediately after the original (threaded) or at the bottom of a pageful of posts (flat)

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

always flat.... board is too active for threaded to work IMHO....

 

[beancounter]

Flat - easier to skim through the salient points of a long thread.

 

[zefender]

I go flat most of the time unless the thread starts to drift and/or becomes very long, then maybe threaded can be a bit simpler to follow various 'sub-threads'.

 

[jonic]

Flat

 

[phanakapan]

Flat

 

[sailbadthesinner]

threaded
although it not as easy as it was as i keep losing myself and which one i am reading

 

[Sans Bateau]

flat

 

[Robin]

Threaded initially because of sub-threads and the possibilty of any reply being seen out of context. Usually switch to flat to see the latest replies in one click/scroll but annoyingly on my computer at least, read posts in flat mode are then still flagged as unread, is that usual?

 

[[2574]]

flat

 

[bedouin]

On this forum it pretty well has to be flat.

That is obviously what most contributors do and so the threads don't really make sense in threaded mode.

In many ways I prefer a forum that does use threading - as it allows different strands of a topic to develop separately - but it can only work if everyone uses that view

 

[fireball]

Flat

I tried threaded ... but flat is much easier to read quickly - it means I only have to read the interesting posts (usually the ones that I posted .. the rest is complete drivel! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif)

 

[Pinnacle]

Flat.

 

[jerryat]

Flat. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[michael_w]

Flat.

 

[Evadne]

Another Flat Forumite /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[CliveG]

Flat

 

[widgeon]

Flat.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Flat dweller.

 

[AJW]

Flat. Threaded is way too time consuming. Most other forum (fora?) I use do not offer any alternative to flat.