I am a member of many forums, but I have never been so confused trying to see new posts in a busy thread. I see there is a conversation "tree" that you can sort of click through, but there are many times I can click through every page of a thread and never see posts that are on the tree. It is like trying to incorporate the tree of places like reddit with a regular forum format. Is this just me? Am I doing it wrong, lol?

One of my favorites is tacomaworld. It is designed to encourage a quote/multiquote every time you want to respond to a particular post and just compresses the quote to a fixed size of about an inch that can be expanded if the viewer chooses, but the post are just laid out sequentially rather than a tree.

I use a laptop for viewing and I still find it hard to see all new posts in a busy thread. Even a plain reddit type (tree-only) would be easier than this hybrid approach.