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It looks like there aren't any very good options for this at the moment. The plugins that make this work in bbPress are all broken, and anyway would need significant modification to work with the BP installation of bbPress.

Another consideration is that bbPress is currently being rewritten, and its relationship with BP will probably be changing significantly in the course of the next four months or so. To me, this suggests that we wait until early 2011 to assess the possibility.

Unless, of course, we determine that it's really important to implement it sooner. In that case, I can start taking a look at the necessary customizations sooner. My judgment that this is not the most efficient use of our dev resources is entirely dependent on the extent of the need for this feature.

This came up yesterday during the Subcommittee meeting, Boone. Can you check to see whether others have made any progress on this? Thanks.

I agree with you on this, Boone, with the caveat that it would be great if you could remain in active contact with JJJ as he develops the plugin so that we could go live with it soon after he releases it.

Michael, since you are one of the biggest proponents of this, what do you think?

It makes sense to me too, to wait until the official version is released. I think at this point it is nice to have for some and not a deal breaker for most ( but will be appreciated when it gets here).

I mentioned that it would be great to track the feature list for this plugin in the discussion of Quote Features in Forums. I think these features are related as they both impact how we view and interact with forums.

I think there's really a lot that can happen to improve the viewing of forum posts and activity streams as well. The ability to thread forums, and potentially other activity streams such as comments to blog posts would have the potential to affect the way people spend time on the site.

Right now, I'm mostly connected to the Commons through my email which notifies me of activity that I'm interested in tracking.

But if was able to go to the My Activity page, and filter by members, groups, adding or removing specific ones from what I want to view. Then see threaded forums, blog comments, etc. And finally be able to respond inline for any of these – that would allow me to spend most of my time in one place on the Commons. I would more likely start to spend time just on the site monitoring activity rather than my email.

I imagine that would require a lot of development, and I don't really have enough of a sense of the time involved so, please let me know if this is too fanciful right now.

Excellent.

Sarah, can you please let me know where you tested (URL), and a further explanation of what you mean by "it's not working for me"?

I was testing threaded replies with this topic: http://cdev.gc.cuny.edu/groups/scotts-test-group/forum/topic/this-is-a-test-topic/.

I replied to this post http://cdev.gc.cuny.edu/groups/scotts-test-group/forum/topic/this-is-a-test-topic/#post-29093 and I thought it would appear indented directly underneath that post, but it shows up at the bottom of the thread not indented.

Thanks, Sarah - not sure why it's not working. I'll take a look.

Boone - I've added better defaults when the "Threaded Display" option isn't set by the user yet. See commit 86abde5.

Sarah - Previously, if you did not set the "Threaded Display" option under "My Settings > Forums", it would default to oldest linear display. The newest update should now default to whatever the admin has set in the WP admin dashboard.

To be sure, can you navigate to "My Settings > Forums" and make sure the "Threaded Display" option is set to "Threaded"? If it's not set to Threaded, set it to Threaded and then navigate to a forum thread. Forum posts should show up as threaded replies now.