I feel that there is too much info displayed in the threads.
For example, against every message, there is a user name, and lots of info about the user. Also, there are buttons to check user profiles, search by user and buddy buttons in each message.
My suggestion is, display just the message and the user who posted it as a hyperlink (as the heading...then you have more horiz space for the message). Clicking on the user hyperlink would provide info on the user, and there you could have the profile, search and buddy buttons.
Also, I see Admin Options drop-down box to allow merge/split thread etc. There's no use of displaying the option if I cannot do any of this stuff (I am not an admin).
How can I post replies to specific messages in a thread? There's a post reply button at the top, but that only allows me to post replies to the main thread itself.
For example, against every message, there is a user name, and lots of info about the user. Also, there are buttons to check user profiles, search by user and buddy buttons in each message.
My suggestion is, display just the message and the user who posted it as a hyperlink (as the heading...then you have more horiz space for the message). Clicking on the user hyperlink would provide info on the user, and there you could have the profile, search and buddy buttons.
Also, I see Admin Options drop-down box to allow merge/split thread etc. There's no use of displaying the option if I cannot do any of this stuff (I am not an admin).
How can I post replies to specific messages in a thread? There's a post reply button at the top, but that only allows me to post replies to the main thread itself.