[Petronski]

No one should expect you to continue to send the entire thread with every refresh, but why change the look and feel? Why not keep the same layout (with all thread data left justified and the author's name AFTER their comments) and break the threads as currently formatted into groups of twenty.

Your current thread layout is a model of visual clarity and I don't understand why it would be changed to a layout which spreads thread info all over the page (author at the top, comment number and reply to number on the far right, etc.). It's just not as good.

[francisandbeans]

what'd ya do? I think you scared everyone away.

[John Robinson]

I may end up with several thread templates, including the old style but broken down into groups for bandwidth efficiency.

To me, this new format makes more sense. The most important information, poster and recipient, is listed where your eyes are most likely to be. For most reading, date and reply # are noise, so I toss them in the corner. YMMV.

[John O]

I agree. The current look has all the required info at the left edge where most reading is done. (that is, you can scan the left edge of a thread to find just the replies you are looking for)

Breaking the thread into manageable pieces isn't bad, should be quite good in fact, but messing with the format itself doesn't seem to help. (does the format actually affect the bandwidth that much?)

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