Recent posts as recent topics

[Jade Elizabeth]

i found somewhere (in the tips and tricks section....but on further inspection i cant find it....and strangely its not in the history but i KNOW i didnt just make up a whole bunch of code by myself lol!!) where there was an option to view the recent posts as threads or something but it did no such thing

so heres a visual of what i want....



http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=654
i have the above, and its where i got the stuff from to be able to "make" the image of what i want
but i want it more compact vertically

[Jade Elizabeth]

okay id be happy if it just didnt show duplicates.....so it didnt repeat "re: blah blah" six times, maybe it could say "re: blah blah (6)" or something?