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Marcio,

Well, that's what I was going to say :) it seems that /messages and
/topics are different things, yet related to each other.

You are correct.

The /messages page is a list of all the messages, ignoring each message's inclusion in a topic.

A topic is a list of one or more messages that have the same Subject text. When you view a topic the Subject text is shown only at the top of the page, not repeated for each message shown below.

The /topics page then is a list of all the topics.

There are a variety of subtle differences between the /messages page and the /topics page.

Some of the differences seem natural. For example on the /topics page next to the Subject of each topic is a count of the messages in that topic, if the count is greater than 1. That count wouldn't make any sense in the /messages page.

On the other hand some of the differences seem questionable to me. For example, as we discussed the /topics page lacks the search by number box. Also, the /messages page lacks the "pinned" topic at the top. I get it, in the sense that each of those concepts goes with the other view, but nevertheless I believe it would be more convenient (and more consistent) to show each of those in both /messages and /topics so that the user doesn't have to switch views just to find them.

Those may be all of the differences between the /messages and /topics pages, I'm not sure. I don't remember and I don't immediately see others at the moment.

For further amusement check out the /expanded page. Basically the same as the /messages page, but showing the whole message bodies rather than linking to them.

Shal


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