Uh. Ever try to follow along in a forum when people start quoting each other and then having side conversations? The old forum layout sucks, Lemmy and Reddit with their parent-child thread-based systems are infinitely better.

[–] rabiddolphin@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Depends on the forum software, there are some that have proper threading

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

but making quote towers is part of the fun!

and necrobumping decade old threads. i confused a lot of people on ign making one of my only posts on a 10 year old thread. and i did that around 10 years ago haha. good times

[–] topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

All depend the subject. For some a web forum model is better, for others the reddit/lemmy is better. Then side convo should be handled by the webforum admins.