Threading problem in the new Yahoo interface

Neri nkafkafi at nkafkafi.yahoo.invalid
Fri Oct 13 17:07:41 UTC 2006


Greetings fellow feedbackers,

The new Yahoo!Groups interface shows you the whole "thread tree" 
below the text of each post. This is nice, except that frequently the 
posts are not indented in a way that shows who answered who. It seems 
to me that in the old interface it used to work better (but perhaps 
my memory fails me) when simply pressing the now extinct "upthread" 
button would bring me straight to the upthread post. 

A typical recent example of this problem can be seen here: 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/159569

Scroll down and see how most of the posts in the "thread tree" are 
not indented. So while this post by Jen answers Alla's post, in order 
to read Alla's post I must search for it in the thread, I must know 
that Alla's Yahoo ID is "dumbledore11214" and if she has more than 
one post in this thread then basically I must guess which of them is 
the upthread post. Trying to follow such a thread after several days 
you haven't visited the list is annoying. Most of the posters in this 
thread are long time members and I'm sure they indeed sent their 
posts in reply to the posts that they meant to answer.  

Here is another such example, this time from our own feedback list:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-Feedback/message/776

and here is an example of how it should look like when things work 
properly:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/159523

Does anyone have an idea if this can be fixed? Did I just miss the 
button in the new interface that fixes it? Why does it sometimes work 
properly and sometimes not? Is it something Yahoo are doing wrong, 
and can we ask them to correct it? 


Neri







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