Combining Posts

I have a feeling this has been discussed at one point or another (although after a few searches I still came up empty), but what's the latest when it comes to the forums automatically combining multiple consecutive posts from the same user into one post?

This was something that was quite useful and was there in the older forum software, and it seems like newer and better forum software should allow for something like that as well (even if at least through some sort of extensions perhaps).

 

It's certainly useful when you know ahead of time that you might be replying to a few different posts, which is certainly the case at times, but often enough you reply to one here and then see another one there and then perhaps another one elsewhere, and there you have it.

 

And that's the thing. If there's going to be stronger enforcement of this kind of thing then the forums should really do something to support this type of combining automatically as was available for years in the previous version. Planning responses ahead helps, but is more than likely far from something that can happen even half of the time. And editing is an additional hassle that relies on all different users to do it themselves, which only gets tricker and harder on smaller touch-based mobile devices. Seems like if it's in the interest of the forums to minimize that as much as possible then getting some sort of an extension or a plug-in that would do it would be a good idea.