Reddit-like threading for replies

[brian6932]

Currently, when you send a reply within a thread, it replies to the last message in the thread. This isn't really an expected behavior, as there's no way to see which PRIVMSGs you and others replied to, without leaving the thread, and looking at the PRIVMSGs within the tab itself. Now if there was reply indenting, it would be much more obvious. I completely understand if this is out of scope, but I do think it'd be a large UX improvement.

[flex3r]

Sounds interesting, how does the website handle it currently?

[brian6932]

Doesn't, but the reply thread doesn't take the full page, so you don't lose out on (current-view) context.

[flex3r]

With context you mean other messages not part of the thread? Or is the current reply thread actually missing messages? It should still contain all thread messages part of the root message, regardless what message was replied to, right? Just making sure I understand the issue correctly

[brian6932]

Yea it's not missing messages, but since it's a full page, you don't really see who replied to who within a given thread, without backing out of the thread to go back to the tab.

[flex3r]

Ahhh, now I got it