Actually this idea could apply to any forum. What if when a person replies, the timestamp is made when the reply window is opened, rather than while it's being posted? This way, it would wedge the reply in before any new ones are made, which is where it was intended to be anyway. Of course if multiple people are replying simultaneously, there would still be the problem that they wouldn't be taking into account what each other is saying, but there really isn't any way around that.

They can't even get the goddamn notifications to work and you expect them to figure out something like that? XD

Good luck.

As painful as agreeing with anything TinyE says is.

I have to agree with TinyE on this.

Also, I wonder if it's really a good method.
Posts would suddenly appear in the middle of discussions that didn't consider them before.. it would be a mess.

No, because what you say isn't said until you're done saying it.

That's what I said, but by the time I had finished saying it, it was already done being said.

Some forums also warn you that someone else has posted in the thread inbetween, when you send your post. It gives you an opportunity to check the current situation before posting, and to adapt your input. Elegant little solution.

Just chatting about existing systems in general. Not expecting it to be implemented on this pretty much doomed forum engine. I mean, some forums also have a search function...

What about those things best left unsaid?

Ninjas already suffer enough discrimination. Stop trying to ban them here as well.

Why is this important? Also how about those messages that people start writing, but cancel because they decide nope not gonna do it. So would there be some kind of temporary empty message for some time, and then it would disappear, or what? What what whaaaaat?

Or was the meaning only that for the posted (=completed) messages, they would be in the order when someone has started writing it, rather than completing it? So a long message would come before a short joke message, as long as it was started first? Well, ok, but I still fail to see the importance, really.

In fact, I wouldn't necessarily like it that suddenly there would appear new messages in between other messages, just because someone started writing it two weeks ago. No, I think overall the current way is better, messages are in the order when they were finished and posted, and that's it. End of discussion, period, exclamation mark.

Was thinking just that.

Yeah I hadn't considered that, but I guess it wouldn't be better, just different. Telika suggested a good idea though, and I hadn't realized that anyone did that.