At last! DPreview.com moving to Xenforo

At least a more information oriented thread, like a Q&A thread, should have threading. Even one level of post threading would help alot.

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Thread 'Allow nested replies in Q&A Threads'

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The Q&A thread naturally lends itself to "post comments". Now, I never thought threaded conversations really worked well in the traditional forum setting -- I recall vBulletin's attempts at it. But, when you are talking about a Q&A where the A's are pieces of votable content itself. There is naturally going to be discussions around the A's.

The problem with the flat structure is what happens when someone replies to an Answer? That answer's reply gets its own Vote button, which doesn't make...
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click here said:
Is their home page on Wordpress or something?
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Tags look wordpress like

About staff ... not sure

The fonts and feel of the homepage is very xenforo.

Probably been on Wordpresss for ages and wanted to stay on it.

I would have suggested
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if they wanted an integrated option.
 
They have Cool article comment options.



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Digital Doctor said:
They have Cool article comment options.
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Looks nice but in practice I'd say barely anyone would use it, let alone profit from it. A very good example of feature lust. Most forum users are overstrained with things like question threads, voting threads or switching to discussion tabs. Some even with quoting, posting to the correct forum or thread or opening an own thread. Not to speak about using prefixes or tabs.
So basically: The simpler the better. More features are not better in most cases, it is forum owners who want them, not forum users. It is easy to overload your forum with features. It is way more difficult to only offer the relevant features and this way to keep a clean UI and easy user experience.
 
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