User blog comment:Toughpigs/Wikia's new Forum demo/@comment-26686429-20120726001403

You've got quite a lot of unused content space in the forum system as it stands at the moment. Would it be possible to add a preview of the first message content to the middle section. Similar to how Gmail, etc does their message?

Also, it feels odd that it mentions the last user to add to the conversation first, not the thread starter. It looks nicer to see the original message first, and perhaps the right hand side could have the person who last replied to the message.

The way the current system works, the only thing that remains constant when someone replies to the thread is the thread title, meaning a user may visit a thread they've already seen, and not have been interested in. With a little more information, users can see at a glance what threads are there - and the initial content of them. Jogging their memory if they've been there before, or providing the information in a digest if they haven't.