Hi @ramadama,

We already have a threaded comments feature in b2evo. For some reason it is not fully functional in the forum skins, but you can get it by using the file I'm attaching to this comment and enabling "Threaded comments" in the back-office (http://b2evolution.net/man/comment-viewing-options). The file could be improved, but works as a quick idea, just uncompress it and replace skins/pureforums/_item_comment.inc.php.

It would be very interesting to have that document translated, because as far as I know, a forum is a tool that let people talk about a topic, and reply to others in no particular order (this could be achieved with the threaded feature mentioned above). So, IMO, the rest is just UX and not part of the conceptual definition of "Forum". However, by playing around with the page you linked, I can get a general idea about the text. Displaying only the current answer and a tree view of the whole discussion in order to navigate through it, may be possible with the current structure but adding new displays, I guess.

The thing is that maybe we are not trying to offer the best forum feature ever, but a fully functional one completely integrated into the website engine.

Regards !

• _item_comment.inc.php.zip (2.8 KB)

Regarding this:

@ramadama wrote earlier:

One point on the 6.2.1-forum: is it possible that the tags don't show?

You can hide tags by commenting the code. It's not optional right now but can be easily turned into an option in the skin's settings.

If you want to get rid of the tags with a hack, go to the file skins/pureforums/_item_block.inc.php and comment this section:

				$Item->tags( array(
					'before' =>    '<span class="topic_tags">'.T_('Tags').': ',
					'after' =>     '</span>',
					'separator' => ', ',
				) );

by replacing it with:

				/*$Item->tags( array(
					'before' =>    '<span class="topic_tags">'.T_('Tags').': ',
					'after' =>     '</span>',
					'separator' => ', ',
				) );*/

The "right" way it's a bit more complicated but not too much :D Just tell me if you're interested and I can tell you how to do it.

We'll definitely make the forum skins work with threaded comments.

We'll think about even more advanced displays in a second time.

I'd like to say: let's collapse all replies with javascript and let users navigate only through the branches they're interested in...

... but this is so not search-friendly: if someone finds the page through Google and some content is collapsed, many times they will not find the info they were looking for, because they don't know what to open.

PS: I admit I did not read the long german article written in super small font ;)