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The Unthreaded View of forums uses indents in the Message Thread visual part under the post. When a lot of replies to replies to replies (etc.) occur, the indenting can push the text into a one-letter-wide column at the right edge of the area. The same thing would happen with indenting replies in Threaded View, which would make reading the multiply-indented posts difficult.

You can see how narrow the reading column gets at just 9 replies by looking at the Message Thread visual part for this thread -- "Finding the audience"  . It gets worse much faster for narrow screens like phones and tablets.

The two options for Forums each have their own advantages and disadvantages. Even if you use one most of the time, there may be times you should switch to the other, or have both views open in adjacent tabs.

A good Forum experience is user-dependent in several ways.

People viewing with Threaded View need to use the correct reply button, as not doing so impacts both notifications to the proper person and later readers in both views.

People who don't tag the person they're replying to, make it harder for Threaded View users to figure out.

When the subject starts getting cut off, edit the Re: string to Re:xNUMBER so the subject can still be identified.

Start a new thread when the original one gets huge, and use links in the post texts to connect them together.




Hope that helps.

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