Question Pagination and indented topic view causes miscommunication

I have selected indented as the default layout. Perfect. But there is an issue I need help with:

1.) When someone replies to the a person who commented on a post, the reply go just underneath them and indented. Perfect. But, if that reply forces a second page, the comment goes on the second page, and it makes the conversation disconnected. Or, if there already was 2 pages, it still makes the conversation look disconnected. Here is a comedic example.

Steve:: For forums, I choose Kunena because they rock.
then on to another page. So, Joe want's to reply to Steve's comment so he write's
John:: You are totally right!
Unfortunate for John, there are 2 pages of replies, so his reply fell under
Jim:: Everyone is dumb.

Do you see where it would be weird? It would look like:
Jim:: Everyone is dumb.
John:: You are totally right!
When John meant to reply to Steve. What is your take on this and what would be a good workaround?


Thanks for the long read. Any help is greatly appreciated.

I edited this to one question. Don't know how to tackle this one though.

This is one of the toughest questions that I have seen on this, or any, forum. how to solve communication problems? When you find the answer to that question, please tell me! :laugh:

Good example of where, if you relied on the indented view, there could be some "interesting" miscommunication in trying to follow a long discussion in a forum. I don't have a good answer for this because I don't actually use this indented topic view myself. Maybe there is another member of the community, with more experience than me, who has a few tips? The best way that I suggest, where's there's the possibility of miscommunication, is to quote the reply. In the example you gave above, John's reply could have been (literally) what you see below:

Steve wrote:

For forums, I choose Kunena because they rock

You are totally right!

Is there a way to carry the parent with it to the second page? Or have a link back to the parent when this happens? Because yes, it can be disconcerting.

I have to say that overall we're enjoying this forum software though .

The only other ways that I could think of that would work in this situation is either

1.) Force the reply to the page, no matter what, bumping everyone else down.
2.) If the comment/reply has to go an another page, automatically grab what the replied to content and insert it as a quote above the new comment/reply.

Both ideas are feasible from a coding standpoint, and for usability, I personally would prefer option 1.

I hope I have helped spark an idea to better your software. Yes, I agree, Kunena rocks!

Another possibility would be to have the thread display collapsed except for that subthread so it doesn't push off the page.

So:

Main topic Link
First Reply Link
Second Reply (open)
This is the strangest example every
Second Reply First Comment
Sure it is.
Second Reply Second Comment
I don't think so.
Third Reply Link

That would have worked better if my indentations stayed .

Is there a different medium where our suggestions can be taken seriously? This is a legitimate question, I wrote it as detailed and thoroughly as possible, and it shows a flaw in the setup of Kunena.