ok i received help in another group with this problem and have got it mostly sorted with the hype plugins, which make the activity stream behave much the way i want it to. however, the wire page itself remains in a threaded format, which im afraid will confuse the average user of my site. is there any way to add the effects of hypealive to The Wire? its going to be the center focus of my site and it would do me a lot of good to have it in the same format. and as a side question...supposing i could get the wire to behave in this manner, is there any way that i could get a comment to send its parent post back to the top of the feed, much like in a facebook group? i think thats a great feature for a social group!