Hi Dan, This is the best alternative to the superbly programmed and extremely well designed and formatted Afternic Forums (which inconsiderate idiots there shut-down with no notice) I have found and the most active but not as active as Afternic was.
My main negative toward this domain forum is the lack of each post appearing on the main page along with its subject and the first 25 or so words of the post not appearing, similar to an email program Preview Pane, and the way Afternic did it.
Each Post should appear on the main page and if clicked on it should take you direct to that Post - with the earlier thread posts above it to read if desired, or following the thread with connecting lines to follow if desired, as done by AN.
It should not be necessary to follow a long thread (or even a short one) simply to find out if any recent posts are of interest or not. For example, I looked at a thread which indicated had new posts, the thread was very long (mostly little value posts), after getting near the end the few new posts were of absolutely no interest to me.
In fact, for lack of a better word I shall call those new thread posts 'garbage' or 'worthless' posts (sorry, no insults intended), consisting of only a few words adding little or nothing of value to the thread. Perhaps they were of some (little) value to the thread posters but likely no one else.
If those 'garbage' posts were listed along with the subject (which by the way should be mandatory, not optional) and some words from the post it would not be required to scroll thru a thread, perhaps even reading the same posts a second time without first realizing it), and then reaching the new posts which turn-out to be of no value at all and a waste of time and effort.
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