Some possible additions to the format?

Didn't preview. Or!!!

Yes it is there, kitty but .........

I just think the beauty of GN is the simplicity of the forum pages - easy to use. If you start cluttering it up with too many knobs and buttons it could put newcomers off.

Jing I really agree. Simplicity is the key.

I'm not sure I understand! I have the newest comments showing first so as soon as there is more than a page of comments, the opening post shows at the top ('highlighted' in blue) and is followed by the latest post. If I want to read (or re-read) and whole thread I press the 'show all' button. Seems simple and effective enough to me already.

That's what I think Bags.

Yes, quite. I suppose phoenix means that you actually have to call up the thread to see the OP. When it's listed you only see the subject and the last poster.

Some OPs take up a whole page. Showing them where threads are listed would cause more of a problem than it would solve, I think.

And threads digress, sometimes very quickly, so knowing what the OP is may not help anyway!

No, phoenix wasn't suggesting showing the whole OP - just the name of the thread-starter and the date it was started. A lot of other forums do that.

Oh, I see. Don't use other forums. I find it's rather fun to try and guess from the title who started a thread. I'm quite good at guessing jingle ones! Can't think why!

And I yours!!!!

Science and stuff. [yawn]

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We really do need an emoticon for 'laughing like a drain!' Jingle

Looks like that's a 'No' then, phoenix....

I vote to keep things simple...a little like me!

Please put up a link to that thread Josie.

Sounds great!

I still would like to be able to see who the thread was started by, and when, I don't think it's making it more complicated at all!

I agree, *phoenix&. It would only need one small line underneath the main thread title.

And see - this is why we need an edit button, because I'm too trigger-happy to look at 'preview'!