[Chris]

We seem to be getting a new topic every month about this. Chances are you're here because you're wondering why the topics all look weird. Like this:



It's a problem our members have complained about many times in the past.

The fix is simple, just click on the Topic Options dropdown located at the top right of the topic, and click Switch to: Standard under the Display Modes heading, as shown below:




So how does this happen?
It's usually when you've found a forum topic via a Google Search. Google had/has a nasty habit of indexing the threaded viewing mode instead of the normal (even though it's not supposed to do either, it's supposed to index the lo-fi mirror). The problem is that the viewing mode is saved in a cookie so it then stays like that until you change it.