I want replies to a topics to be organised in tree structure like other forums scripts have. I’ve done some searching and can’t find any solution and I also came to realize that Discourse was never developed in that way. The replies are mostly few years old so not sure if it has changed? I was wondering if tree structure for replies can be achieved or it’s just a total no? If yes how?

Until someone comes along and quotes an authority, I’ll give you the short answer, which is No :slight_smile: When people have clicked the small reply-to-post button instead of the main reply-to-topic button it’s possible to collapse/hide the other replies, but that only goes half way to what you want.

You can write a theme component (or maybe a plugin! IDK) to stylize the replies to your preference. That being said, it is not directly supported and there is not setting to configure in discourse core that would enable that functionality.

It’s so confusing when you are coming from other forum scripts. I’m 2 days and so far not able to get my way around it.

[image] itsbhanusharma: You can write a theme component (or maybe a plugin! IDK) If I’ve to write or know how to write plugin I would build my own forum software.

If you click the little 1 (or probably 2 now) on my first post above, you’ll see our conversation with the other replies hidden.

That’s even better! Total control on your own software, Just the way you like it :slight_smile:

[image] asugar: I was wondering if tree structure for replies can be achieved or it’s just a total no? Discourse follows the flat model for discoussions: [image] Web Discussions: Flat by Design It’s been six years since I wrote Discussions: Flat or Threaded? and, despite a bunch of evolution on the web since then, my opinion on this has not fundamentally changed. If anything, my opinion has strengthened based on the observed data: precious... If you are looking for a threaded/tree-like software there is https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

I had misunderstood it myself. I think doing this shows all n replies to the relevant post but only the direct replies. So after this second reply to your post the number beside it might be 2 and it’ll show my two replies (but not any future replies to my own posts).

[image] asugar: It’s so confusing when you are coming from other forum scripts. What forum software are you using daily? Do/did you not use forums like phpBB, vBulletin, Vanilla, etc? [image] asugar: I’m 2 days and so far not able to get my way around it. I don’t know your goal (create a new community?), but I’m sure you’d be able to get your way around it fairly quickly. “Flat” discussions are quite common on the Internet.

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If I’ve to write or know how to write plugin I would build my own forum software.

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