Jonathon,

It's no big deal and I appreciate your effort. Now that I realize what is happening I just adjust accordingly. I was just trying to give a possible insight as to why surprised_dancer might be mistakenly thinking her thread was removed.

I like the individualness of this forum as with another forum I'm involved with over many generic versions.

It's a great site.

A couple of things that I might prefer (but that's just me and others might disagree) are:

a. In the reply window I would like to "drag & highlight" for editing purposes. Right now, if changes are neccessary you have to place the cursor and back space to delete sections. I also like to do this if I've made a long post. By doing a drag highlight and copy I can save the post incase anything goes amiss when I hit "Post Reply".

b. Subsequent replies are squeezed further and further to the right until sometimes you get only 3 or 4 words a line. You end up doing a lot of scrolling. As each message is fully seperated by a title bar I'd prefer no indent on subsequent replies.

Please accept that my suggestions are only meant for consideration as possible improvements to a terrific forum.

Bob

I'd like that, too. But it seems that when I added the JavaScript that enabled the extras (eg quotes, images, smileys), the ability to drag was lost in the process. I'm guessing it has something to do with the "onclick" function, which records the cursor position for the inserting of text.

But that seems to only happen in Internet Explorer. When I tried it with Firefox, I was still able to drag and select text. I'm going to hire a pro JavaScript programmer to write a better script for inserting the little extras, which will hopefully speed up the page load. In the process, he might be able to clear up this issue, too. In the meantime, you might try using Firefox, or see if the beta of Internet Explorer 7 doesn't have the same problem.

Also, in IE6 you can select text by clicking the starting point, then shift-clicking the end point. Not as nice as dragging, I know, but it beats repeatedly banging away at the backspace key.

This is a visual representation of the message threading. I'll probably go ahead and shrink the amount of indent per message, which will help a little bit. I also saw on one forum where they kept all messages the same width even as they indented, which looks nice, too.

If you want to eliminate the indent altogether, you can actually do that now. If you scroll to the bottom of this page, you'll see some settings for "view type" and "sort order". Change the sort order to "newest on top", and the message indenting will be gone.

Regards,
Jonathan