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To: dave1mn2 who wrote (487)	3/5/2012 9:28:30 AM
From: SI Brad	7 Recommendations Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 3249

re: SI format sucks Please know I am getting the message (repeatedly!) and am getting my hands around the problem....how to implement the features, without offending the long-time SI users or making the site more visually complicated. I really appreciate all the feedback, and your willingness to help evolve the product . Does this about capture what you are looking for? (1) automatically include the "RE:[topic]" as the first line in the editor when you reply to an "RE:". That one takes 5 minutes, but I need to work on getting the cursor to start in the right place (it wants to start before the RE). (2) keep track of unread messages in the database rather than relying on the browser. Trickier, but probably doable. If you hit "next 100", can I assume you've read all 100 messages? Or do you care only about messages that you click on individually or as part of "Replies (3)"? (3) Full thread support. When you click on "Replies (3)", you would see not just the 3 immediate replies, but the entire thread (everything for that "RE"[topic]"). Offer to toggle between "flat view" or "hierarchical". (4) In the flat thread view, by default you would start reading with the message you were at, but have an option to jump to the top of the thread (which is the parent of the message that had the first RE). (5) in hierarchical view, you would need to view the entire thread at once. Ideally we would suppress messages that you have already read (assuming #2 is accomplished) by compressing those into a single expandable line. (6) better spellchecker. Do we need a spellchecker at all, since modern browsers already highlight misspellings? I am willing to take a shot at implementing all these on the current system. I don't have any performance concerns, even with #2...the site would still be lightening fast. I'm optimistic that 80% of this can be done within a matter of weeks, while the remaining 20% will follow the 80/20 rule. Do you like having this conversation on the BAK subject, or should I start a new subject?