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DarthLord_Ultnet
Seasoned Vanguard
30 days ago
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[Improvement] Visuals for subanswers

It's ok when we got 1 question = many answers thread it's seems ok because all answers related to the main user who ask the question.

But in the discussion some people (as myself) want to comment on other's thoughts or answers and there is no visual distinguish for that exept username tag like @user.

Reddit got this with lines connecting replies.

Disqus got this in tab / spacing for the subreply.

And here just plain text with same position of text making it's hard to concentrate on the reading identifying whos talking to who just only with the @user naming.

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  • EA_Nils's avatar
    EA_Nils
    25 days ago

    There are pros and cons to both. In particular in more open ended general discussions settings, we can see the benefits of threaded.

    That said, until there are better ways to navigate big threads (pagination, jump to next unread, and the like) we have decided to set the default thread view to linear globally. Those that prefer threaded can overwrite this via their profile setting for now.

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  • DarthLord_Ultnet's avatar
    DarthLord_Ultnet
    Seasoned Vanguard
    30 days ago

    puzzlezaddictwell, thanks, that's helping. But why not making it as the default settings automatically, who knows.
     Although I've notice my reply window now highlighted with blue border and tabbed. That is so much better and beautiful. If someone from devs seeing this - great job guys. I only wish all posts be highlitened that way as in

    not just as here 

    but thanks anyway

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    29 days ago

    DarthLord_Ultnet  The threaded view was the only sort option for months.  It made helping on this forums much more difficult, and it made conversations harder to follow too.

    Imagine that you're keeping up with a thread that now has 60 posts, and you see that there are two unread posts, but you don't know where they are.  You might need to expand every single reply to a reply to see if there's a reply to that that's new.  Linear makes it simple: go to the end of the thread, or change the sort order to Newest for a minute.

    When you click a link to a specific reply, that reply shows in blue.  For example, this is the link to THIS reply where I'm typing:

    [Improvement] Visuals for subanswers | EA Forums - 11863210

    If you're just reading the thread, this reply looks normal.  If you click that link, the reply is in a blue box.

  • EA_Nils's avatar
    EA_Nils
    Icon for Community Admin rankCommunity Admin
    25 days ago

    There are pros and cons to both. In particular in more open ended general discussions settings, we can see the benefits of threaded.

    That said, until there are better ways to navigate big threads (pagination, jump to next unread, and the like) we have decided to set the default thread view to linear globally. Those that prefer threaded can overwrite this via their profile setting for now.

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