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Seasoned Hotshot

11 months 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 ...

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EA_Nils
11 months 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.

puzzlezaddict

Hero+

11 months 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.