ninkazu says these forums suck(used about qb45 forums)

[jatos]

he says indented forums are hard to follow, are confusing, and cant build a good community. gentleman, start your ranting.

I would agree that indented suck, a hint for you next seph forum, seph.

[Fling-master]

Tree-based forums r0x0r phpBB

[na_th_an]

I disagree.

Objectiveness: each kind of forums have their set of advantages and disadvantages. It's a matter of each one to choose which advantages like more and which disadvantages dislike less.

I myself (lazy ass) prefer this kind of forums 'cause I hate (in threaded forums) having to click each time to see a new message and having to return back and back and back to see a new thread.

[Zack]

I muchly dislike tree-based forums, in favour of a phpBB-style topic-based solution. I don't like how everything is always "who replied to whom...," and you have to check the thread structure whereas with phpBB you can tell simply by checking for a "BTW Zack:" or "Zack wrote: blab blah balhh balh."

[Neo]

I completely agree with Zack here. I also like these fora the best (phpBB, not tree-like) because it's simple much more ordered on subject, better style, and more user friendly GUI.

[jatos]

I thought that this may be the general opinion, I HATE tree based forums for all the reasons mentioned so far.

[Plasma]

Tree-based forums r0x0r phpBB

I concur.

[jatos]

Tree-based forums r0x0r phpBB

I concur.

I am sureI heard this phrase a million times over in civ 2

[wildcard]

Well you can have both, Vbulletin supports it currently(or modded it does). Not sure about phpBB doing it in the future.

[seph]

My old SephForum 4.something supported it too. But was not as feature-filled as those popular ones.