Why TreeK?
At first glance, this extension is not essential for a website (unlike, say, Akeeba Backup). It is possible to continue using the Kunena forum without TreeK.
But if an administrator care about his Kunena forum users and want to make their experience more convenient, engaging, and enjoyable, then he should install TreeK
TreeK is like a piece of jewellery—something you can live without, yet it makes life brighter—while TreeK Pro allows your forum to sparkle like a diamond. TreeK transforms a Kunena thread from a mere exchange of opinions into a lively discussion!
Judge for yourself.
- In Kunena, a forum visitor sees a (dull) stream of posts, listed one after another.
- A reply to a post is linked to the original ("parent") post—at best—by a quote, but more often simply by mentioning the author in the subject line.
- The subject line of any post is an exact duplicate of the topic title, meaning it conveys no substantive information about the content of the reply.
- And if someone happens to write an own subject line for their post, it changes the title of the entire topic (a disaster!).
TreeK has rectified all these and some other shortcomings, and has also introduced some useful new features.
TreeK presents a topic on the Kunena forum in the form of a tree structure. The content of the topic becomes easily understandable, as it shows in the message tree who replied to whom and how.
The settings of the tree window allow the user to see the content of a single post or teasers of all posts in the topic at once, choose a convenient tree view, receive a notice when a new post is added to the topic etc., and work with the discussion without leaving the tree window.
TreeK Pro also includes configurable tools for improving the Kunena interface.
All actions for creating topics, adding posts, and editing posts are carried out in the usual way in Kunena.