Can a thread/topic be viewed in some sort of threaded view, or are all replies in a thread always displayed in time-order?
welcome! i've only seen relies in chromo order, but i suppose it's possible. what order are you looking for?
Especially for long threads, switching to "threaded mode" view would show the replies sorted under the posts that they were replies to. Some replies I've seen are hard to relate to what they are replying to, e.g., if the reply has no prior context quoted within it.
Sorry for responding to this one late, but there is not that type of option in our current forum software. I would encourage everyone to use the "Reply" and multi-quote options when replying to a specific message because then the arrow shows up in the quote, which is a link to the original message.