I agree, and disagree
both at the same time.

The new format does actually make more sense. However, it's not what we're used to, so it's difficult to follow multiple conversations as they could be going on all over the page. And the page can get very big.

At least with the old format, there's only one stream of conversation. There may be people replying to each other with reference to other comments further up, but at least it's a linear stream.

The new format is non-linear, insofar as it's branched, so you have to be able to follow numerous different conversational threads.

Overall then, I'd prefer the old version.

Of course, it could be left as is, and we can just use it in the old style by clicking the reply button at the top of the page.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 15 Sep 2008, 8:28, Reply)