User blog comment:BertH/New Forums now available in Labs/@comment-4257094-20121204012910/@comment-10370-20121204232042

Yeah, we've been talking a lot about the best way to display replies. Indenting replies under the message you're replying to (like we do with these blog comments) makes the relationship between your message and my reply clear, but at the cost of understanding how the conversation develops chronologically. Having all the messages listed in chronological order helps the conversation flow, at the cost of making the relationship between message and reply clear.

We're hoping that the Quote function helps to bridge that gap -- keeping the conversation in order, and linking replies with the message they're replying to. They've been using Quotes a lot on the Brickipedia Forum -- here's an example.

We'll definitely be looking at how people are using these features -- there's still a lot of room to learn and make changes.