Here is an example of a mock up of the color I was referring to from a screen rip of this thread. The circled area would be the alteration of the color of the subsection we are in of a different color than higher sections to show where we are in the forum tree.
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Hi,
I've taken a look at your example. I'm still not sure why you want a different color, since the forum structure (where you are in the tree) is clearly visible with the arrows ('>')..
Well, there is another reason why, on that aspect. With a different color to the structure end, it is very catchy and the eye darts right to it, if it was an alternate color than the rest of the structure list.
I was also thinking that in addition to the different color to the browsed low section you are browsing that there needs to be no link, as you are already at that section. I think it would still be useful, though, to keep the root link at the root of the board, the "Board Index", always as a link, though, if you lurk the boards so you can use the forum to refresh the forum cache for new posts.
I disagree on this. I use that link very often. You're visiting a topic in that forum, not the forum itself.
My edit attempted to clear that up. I was not referring to deadening the link in a topic view, only to the sub structure you are viewing at the time, with the exception of the root of the structure when there and the structure end when at a topic view. I think you misunderstood what I was implying involving a redundant link. Makes just as much sense in Windows explorer tree view when you are already in the folder you view based on what the tree shows but after you open a file you are then looking at the file, from the directory source. YET, a thread and a topic in my regard is the same thing. Threads populate sections, any section, unless the admin restricts thread spawning to the ends of the sections and only are usually seen with sections, too, and then as admin posts. OF COURSE, in forum speak, a thread is never a section, like a folder to a file in a tree directory listing format of storage, if that's how the OS keeps track of them in a page file.
EDIT: And another thing, if you are in a thread of a low section of the forum, technically the last tree section you are in should still be linked on the page. I just see redundancy in having a link on the forum to the section you are already viewing, except for the root of the board view.
See the answer above.
Besides, I've never seen a board that uses a color system in the way you are suggesting.
On that observation, I don't think it matters if the structure end is colored, I don't think I've actually seen that on boards either. They usually do something else: bold text, underline, italics. What I'm pretty sure I have seen before also, some boards grab the string of characters from a title topic and append that to the tree in a particular style. A color difference could be somewhat original if you haven't seen it, if you've seen board after board. Maybe this forum could have that perk above others.