I agree with this, also, and that's one of the reasons this isn't a simple change. Current features do not make it easy enough to peruse posts by user. For example, you can click on the message index for a thread, but if what you wanted was all messages by one user then you can't get that. What is really needed, often enough to be annoying that you can't do this, is a page with all the messages of a thread from just one user.
I'd like to address all the "make it easy to peruse a thread" issues and the "see list of messages by a user" issues and the "are there any messages I haven't replied to yet" issues in a single update, so it won't be an easy change and is unlikely to happen soon. But the suggestions you and others make will be factored in, so keep those cards and letters comin', folks!
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