>>>>>>How is that on the fly? When I expand a thread I adjust the size of the upper and lower pane. Why is this such a big issue? On the fly is the standard UI on all websites I visit.
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>>>>>>That alone makes the site less user friendly to the point that the extra usage difficulty keeps me from a paying subscription.
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>>>>>>p.s. bring back the good old days of offline threaded readers that really did the job right, like tapcis.
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>>>>>I will get back to you on this by the weekend.
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>>>>I think Dmitry already mentioned it, but I could not find that message - when we view all messages of the thread, we no longer see whom the person responded - it shows All.
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>>>>Also, I think I really need View all messages from this one functionality back, if possible. On long threads we may want to read just particular branch of the thread.
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>>>I agree. - View all messages from this message was a very handy feature.
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>>I third that. But, IIRC it never worked properly, I think it showed all messages in the whole thread that were later than the selected message, rather than just those descending from that message. OTOH the message map from the selected message worked properly, I would use that instead and pick messages from that to read.
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>?? It seemed to work very well (and correctly) for me. I used it a lot.

So did I, but on some larger threads I started to notice the View Messages option was including messages that I knew for a fact weren't descendents of the selected message. I reported it to Michel in this forum a couple of times, with repros but nothing ever happened. The View Map option always worked 100% properly for me.

Update: to Michel: I mainly used those features to battle thread drift. They were great for weeding out extraneous messages. That's how I first noticed the problem of wrong messages getting included; they were clearly from other branches that had drifted OT.

In short: those were good features for battling thread drift.