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To: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) who wrote (31823)	10/29/2020 9:50:38 PM
From: Ace77	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 32921

I've been reading Silicon Investor for a few weeks now. I still haven't gotten used to the layout. I'm willing to learn. Do you just: 1. Go to a "subject" (e.g. Subject 56874 ) 2. Click on a few of the latest posts/replies in the "subject" 3. For each post, follow the links upwards (i.e. clicking on "To: user123 who wrote (12345)") and downwards (i.e. clicking on "Read Replies") to read more posts. Is this how it's supposed to work? From this, I gather that SIlicon Investor is more like a free-flowing chat rather than a forum where each thread has a prominent post at the root (finding the root post is often tedious here, requiring lots of clicks to get to the first post that started the specific discussion).

To: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) who wrote (31823)	10/30/2020 6:58:09 PM
From: Eric L	2 Recommendations Recommended By B.K.Myers greg s Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32921

Threaded v. Unthreaded Views on web based discussion boards ... << No, this layout is superior. It has not really changed since 1995. 25 years. >> The basic unthreaded view has not changed here since it was originally introduced but it has thankfully and most definitely evolved through significant positive change under several ownerships including the current ownership along the way. Hats off to Dima for the ongoing evolution that has occurred on since 2013. Whether or not an unthreaded view is superior to a hybrid unthreaded/threaded view is a matter of opinion. In my own personal opinion it is not. The classic and most enduring version of the latter belongs to 'The Motley Fool' (TMF) which David and Tom Gardner founded in 1993 and migrated from AOL to the web in 1997. I first experienced both SI and TMF sites in mid-1996 and subscribed both in '97 posting to TMF as 'InCards.' I last posted to TMF in 2013 and have seldom visited since, but just did and was pleased to see that the basic layout is unchanged and my personal data and all posts I made there are still intact, You might recall that Brad was working on a hybrid approach (without an explicit "subject" line but instead based on a "RE:[topic]" reply) back in 2012 ... SI Brad [3/3/2012]: "When Ron said "Not yet", I believe he's referring to a "threaded" format I'm playing around with and might roll out in the next few weeks." SI Ron [3/3/2012]: "Yes, that's what I was referring to, re: the threaded* view you are working on."* Brad posted this in late February 2012 on the BAK Investing board ... Brad started working on that evolution and commented further on it in these posts ... Message 27977250 Message 27990195 In April 2012 Brad added: "I will soon have "threading" working, such that you can click on the Re: topic* to view all of the messages for that sub-topic."* I for one was sorry to see that Brad's approach to the hybrid mode was never fully implemented (or at least I don't think it ever was). I should add that the fact that subject boards have all too often been referred to as 'threads' here on SI has always bugged me somewhat. << Once you are use to it, you will not like the other ones. >> A hybrid view along the lines of what Brad was working on would, IMO, have appeal to many and would allow more focus on individual topics for discussion purposes without impacting chat for the chatty kats and kathys of this virtual community. who are so disposed. I always appreciated Ramsey Su's enduring line in the popular Qualcomm (unmoderated and moderated) boards' headers: "This is a discussion forum, not a chat room." I borrowed it several times on boards I created here. Different strokes for different folks. Cheers, - Eric L -