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sert drtu

You mean instead of showing the posts you just see a tree structure with the reply titles?
I personally don't like it, since it means to more often load the page . But I believe its no easy hack for the forum espsecially for the theme.

I personally can't stand those kind of "layouts" and phpbb is not equipped to handle such a task.

PHPbb has all posts as replies to the topic, not even the first post. There is no inbuilt way of differentiating between which post the author is replying to. I'm sure there would be a reasonably easy way of implementing such a system (though there would be issues with quoting multiple users) but as far as I'm concerned it really isn't worth it.

You can always use the quote function. Then everyone will know who are you talking to. If you want to answer more than 1 person, then you just quote all of them, one by one with the text underneath.

You don't seem to understand the situation.

In a threaded environment posts are grouped based on which thing the person is replying to, so say the person is replying to the 3rd post in a topic then it is grouped underneath the 3rd post which would cause issues if you were making replies to multiple people inside the single post.

I do understand Tim.
However, as far as I know, none of the 3 leading board software’s on the Net has this kind of feature. So as I said, quoting is the only possible way, to make the thread look more readable.

EDIT: Just found a mod for phpBB: http://www.mobythreads.com/

I really dont like the whole subthread thing at all. Quoting is good enough.

It's a good challenge to do it on phpbb though. I'll try to throw something together see if it could work

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It's alright, mate, we all have different ideas on overview.

But I must admit I join the group that likes the board like it is... I am on another site where the forum is like you explain, and I just wish for it to some day be changed to another kind like PHPbb.

Threaded/nested posts can be ugly, and they make it easier to go off into ridiculous arguments, a la Slashdot or IMDB. I think the current layout works best most everywhere.