Threading problem in the new Yahoo interface

[Neri]

> Neri:
> 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. 


Neri again:
OK, it seems that the situation is even worse than I first thought.

In my example post:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/159569
I've just discovered that, in fact, Alla's post to which Jen responded
*does not appear at all* in the thread tree below. Alla's posts that
do appear there are more recent posts. So in this case there is *no
way at all* to reach the upthread post from Jen's post. The only way I
could find Alla's original post was to run a search for her text that
Jen quoted. I think you'll agree with me that this is a very
roundabout way to do things.

I also suspect that the problem is with too large threads. It seems
that when the thread has too many posts in it, then at some point the
Yahoo threading function just gives up and doesn't attempt to display
all of them. Which would have been fine by me, if only they did
display the one-step upthread and downthread posts.

Neri