Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31234217-20170606232934/@comment-24577221-20170614052409

I can see several problems with that proposal, some of them serious.


 * It would be painful to try to coordinate entries between the new page and the old one, checking for duplicates etc.  It would also be painful to try to migrate the information from the old page to the new one.  I can see a way to do it, but it wouldn't be simple and it wouldn't preserve the "ownership" of the entries -- that is, the copied entries wouldn't show who originally added them.


 * It's a lot harder for an admin (or anyone else) to walk through the changes in a forum thread, looking for entries that have been moved.  On the current page, it's just one click to go from one change to the next.


 * The entries in a forum thread take up a lot of space, compared to the relatively compact one-entry-per-line format on a regular page.  It's more difficult to work with them on a mobile device from a strictly mechanical point of view, as well as requiring a lot more data transferred, which translates to longer waits.


 * You've already noted the benefit of the strict ordering of the entries, with the problem that the standard last-entry-at-the-bottom order is the opposite of what we'd prefer.  I don't know if that can be changed.