I've often thought that searching would be easier if it just displayed the main thread where the search term is located rather than also displaying each post as RE: ....

It would make searching much easier as you could display more threads when reading each related search result.

Like a more condensed output or perhaps the choice of showing as expanded or not.

Hope that made sense :)

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