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Hi,

What threaded view allows is for additional discussions related to the main topic to be separated into sub topics. This is needed for technical discussions. DPR is foremost an equipment site and the forums foremost for technical discussions.

It used to be flat view only and it was not only a Pain to follow technical topics, it was a Royal Pain. What has been falling onto deaf ears is the very fact that the addition of threaded view was.a solution to a major problem.

But there is zero point in continually pointing this out over there. They have already decided on their course and put the helm over and engaged flank speed. All that is left to do is ride along.

Stan

First, I think some of the new folk are marketing types. When I visit gear patrol, I see an online version of a glossy mag. As much as they say they respect threaded view, I think deep down they don't get tech and they don't like the many nested discussions.

Their attitude to the "additional discussions related to the main topic to be separated into sub topics" is that they should be separated into separate threads. I thought it a lame response.

It was a really weird thing to announce the decision and only then ask for discussion.

I am not sure I want to ride along in what is surely going to be a train wreck... I might just fly a drone above and watch it

Me too.

I will continue to visit and post to their dying Sigma Camera forum until it is truly dead; the Sigma Camera category here died long ago.

its definatly nearly dead over there compared to FM, FM is a pain to visit after a few days to see if anyone has replied to a post as it does not nest the replies together but scatters them throughout the thread. ive said it before it takes away the ability to speed read a thread, i suppose the inventers of flat view do not have the ability or know what even speed reading is 🫣 and the sites that host flat view are concentrating on flooding the pages with advertising.

I wander how you all survived without threaded view on this forum? And it is still going. I think DPR will be alright despite doom and gloom predicted by some.

Ask the question on the C&C thread and see what the responses are. It is doable but painful once there many replies to many posted images.
Also there aren't that many of us here and there aren't many deep discussion threads with lots of replies and sub-topics.

First it is against guidelines of the DPR to go off tropic. If by C&C you mean Samples and Galleries, there is only one long thread. When I am looking at the posted pictures, I am interested to see all of them and also I am interested in the reactions. But unless I read them, I have no idea what is in them. If I participated in the thread, I get notified by flag next to my name about new post and I can look at it. If I did not participated in the thread, but I am interested in the topic I will follow it, but usually after 20 posts or less, they start to repeat each other.

Hi,

I do not participate much here because there isn't a threaded view. Not even in the threads I have started.

For example, my NC Lighthouse thread. There is quite a bit more I can add. However, I want to do it by Lighthouse. Over time. Moving back and forth between the seven. So I need a way to reply to my initial post, with a subthread for each of the seven. And some other subthreads such as Route 12 and the Graveyard of the Atlantic.

And then we could have discussions on each subtopic and keep everything straight. With flat view, it quickly becomes a jumbled mess. So I just don't bother with it all.

Stan

I meant the Wednesday C&C thread here... Most of the regulars there have often bemoaned the lack of threaded view

Who needs to go off topic? An image's discussion may have many comments and replies to various aspects of the image. It is natural that the comments on different aspects be grouped together. Or discussion on a body or lens. Many discussions will ensue.
Telling us how DPR works is not an answer to the topic of this thread. And I am sure regulars at DPR know how it works.

What I see is that each member comments once on the somebody's image or a group of images unless they get into discussion. If there is a discussion on the body or lens will come up, I am interested in discussions of everything, not just particular feature or by particular member. YMMV. Lets agree to disagree. I see no further point in continuing this discussion.

Sure, for those that are happy with flat view that's their choice. I want to read all the discussions too. It's just that I want to read all the comments on certain points together in one block.
I have been reactive to the point of view that if flat view is one's choice, why is there a need for threaded. As I replied to you on DPR, if they were taking away flat view, I would probably be against that too and would never say threaded is the only way just because that is what I use.

I've never said that there is no need for the threaded view. The discussion was about advantages of the threaded view over flat view or vise versa. Another point was that DPR is doomed without threaded view which I strongly desagree with.

In flat view, like here, it is possible to edit the quotes in a sub-discussion to weed out the irrelevant or frivolous posts or parts thereof - and to bring in relevant quotes from other parts of the thread or even another thread. Sometimes necessary even in threaded view in DPR. For example, when someone posts nine paragraphs of rebuttal, each with several different points in it, BBcode and the delete key are your friends ... 😉