Threaded forums; what are your thoughts?

It's been a long time since I've seen any of these, and while I don't personally like the layout of them, I was curious to know what other people thought of these? I remember them being the dominant kind of forum layout before UBB and vBulletin introduced the more modern style, back when people were using cgi scripts and what not...

 

Thought I'd like them when they came out as I'm a fan of old style Usenet...however, they just don't work properly and I now dislike them.

 

Not a fan.

 

That's interesting. But what do Usenet groups look like anyway? I've only ever seen some through Google Groups, but I didn't know they were threaded.

Short and to the point.

 

They are only helpful in long threads with multiple branches. However for the most part, they are a thing of the past.

 

I think they're ugly, inefficient and take too long to go through if you want to read an entire thread (too many clicks).

I very rarely see them in use (except in Yahoo Groups and a few support forums).

 

I am definately not a fan of them!

 

I like it on only one site (tweakers.net) however there they implemented it extremely well for articles. On other places I don't like it.

 

^That site doesn't seem like it uses threaded style forums to me, an example please?

 

It is only at articles.

A direct link of one:
Drie AM3-borden vergeleken | Conclusie | Core | Tweakers.net

 

not a fan at all. the first forum i ever joined used them, i much prefer the normal way forums are

 

In this particular VB forum, I'd like to have it. It's pretty annoying to reply on a post, and when your post has been inserted (and you refresh your page with F5), you figure out someone else posted inbetween.
In SMF, I get a warning that new posts were made, since I created my post. This gives me the possability to take actions from this.

So depending on the forum, it could be a nice feature.

 

Never liked it and wonder why SMF,myBB and other forum based software even bother to continue to have it in their codebase.

It have been a very long time since I have seen a threaded set up,it is obviously unpopular.

bbPRESS does not have threaded at all,nor the following forum software groups:

BurningBoard
DeluxeBB
E-blah
Elite Bulletin Board
Evilboard
FluxBB
ForumLogic and many more.

You can see who has them here:

Forum Matrix

 

Maybe 80% thinks it an unpopular option. But maybe the last 20% can't live without it

SMF never supported threaded forums.

 

With the quoting system that pretty much every forum software has I believe that threaded forums are way outdated. Downright annoying honestly.

 

I hate threaded forums, usually I only encounter them when looking for information via Google, and I leave right away.

 

I sit corrected.

 

Let me correct myself: I don't know if SMF supported it in the past, but it's not in SMF 1.1 as well as SMF 2.

 

Don't like them at all. I automatically leave if I come across one.

 

You leave if you come across a threaded forum? Why?