I admit that the navigation within my site is kind of screwee but I wrote the site, know all its shortcuts and I personally do not have problems to find whatever I need. I relay do not know how you USE my site and therefore I do not know what is YOUR browsing patters. I do not mind to change it to make it friendlier for others. I’m keep receiving emails from visitors with contradictory requirements…

So, if you wish drop in this thread a few notes with what you find in my site’s navigation uncomfortable for you and what you would like to see changed. You might not necessarily be a register visitor as this “Support Forum” allows anonymous posting.

Ronnie,

Yes, I agree that some things might be done better, in fact have some ideas and I will render them when I have time. I will make the read replies in the “Hierarchical View” have different colors form the non-read yet replies. This should take case about the “scratching head”.  Generally the “Last 24-hours” tab is a good snapshot of the site activity. I though to bind the content of this tab to the last visit but then decided to make it juts 24 hours view back. Yes, I’m planning to put the Hierarchical vs. Flat vie into a configurable setting for a visitor. It will be configured at the “Preference” tab. What I do not know at this point what make a default setting 9Hierarchical vs. Flat) for a first time visitor or for a person who did not set this setting up yet.

Yes, I like the “Random Threads" section very much as well. Sometimes I pick a post from there and while I’m reading it I am wondering: what the hell I meant to say…. :-)

Ronnie wrote:

The only problem in my life is that I'm missing the thread-starts, because they don't turn up among "Recent replies". If "Recent replies" was "Recent posts" instead... What a wonderful world! I don't see the benefit of not displaying the first posts in that column

Ronnie wrote:

Hierarchical vs. Flat in the preferences tab is quite OK.(But you know what the client would say: "Good! But the ability to switch instantly while browsing a thread would be even neater, don't you think?")

Actually I was not planning to remove instant switch-ability between Hierarchical and Flat views. The configurable Hierarchical vs. Flat view seating will allow to each visitor to set his own INITIAL BEHAVIOR of any post's hyperlink.

Oh joy! :-)

In my greed I'll attempt to get the "Flat / Hierarchy" exactly how I'd like it:

One click on "Flat" or "Hierarchy" creates a cookie on the users computer, which stores the setting (for a loooong period ahead). The chosen mode will stick, and not change until the user clicks again.
No need to set it under "preferences" at all.