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Re: Merge Double Posts
« Reply #30 on August 11th, 2011, 06:52 PM »
I got a little confused.

Post 1 is the parent of posts 2 and 3, and 3 is the parent of post 4, what happens if 1 and 2 are merged? They were posted in order by number, but your example seemed to put the 3/4 chain higher up in importance than 1/2.
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« Reply #31 on August 11th, 2011, 07:40 PM »
Flat mode: Nothing. 1 and 2 are merged, followed by 3 and 4.
Threaded mode: 1 shows up, followed with 2 and 3 as indented posts. Then post 4 indented under 3. Nothing is shown as 'merged'.
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Re: Merge Double Posts
« Reply #32 on August 13th, 2011, 12:06 AM »
Did I lose you? ;)
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Re: Merge Double Posts
« Reply #33 on August 13th, 2011, 12:15 AM »
No, I just got caught up in some other stuff.

So, merging doesn't do anything in threaded mode then? Seems to beg the question why you'd bother doing it in that circumstance...
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Re: Merge Double Posts
« Reply #34 on August 13th, 2011, 09:48 AM »
Virtual or real merging?
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« Reply #35 on August 13th, 2011, 10:11 AM »
Virtual merging. Real merging, you'd still end up physically merging stuff, but in virtual merging, it sounds like you would be putting all this effort in only not to merge on threaded replies, which to me seems to defeat the point a bit.
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Re: Merge Double Posts
« Reply #36 on August 13th, 2011, 11:20 AM »
Virtual merging is effortless. ???

The only CPU load it takes is to test whether to show the post footer and next post header.
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Re: Merge Double Posts
« Reply #37 on August 13th, 2011, 12:05 PM »
The effort of coding/testing it ;)
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Re: Merge Double Posts
« Reply #38 on August 13th, 2011, 12:20 PM »
It's not going to be much. (Says me after I said the same about smiley sprites... :whistle:)
Most of the work would be inside the rewrite for threaded views anyway.
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