Ads need a lot of space on topics with nested replies

Falco · June 11, 2026, 2:15pm

LMAO, I, like you with the advertising tag, thought this was handled in the Discourse Advertising Plugin (Ads), and spent way too much time fussing around there, but turns out this is handled with the GitHub - discourse/discourse-custom-topic-list-ads-component · GitHub instead.

With that out of the way, here are the fixes

github.com/discourse/discourse-custom-topic-list-ads-component

FIX: Render between-posts ads correctly in the nested replies view (#25)

main ← fix-nested-replies-view-ads

opened 05:14PM - 10 Jun 26 UTC

xfalcox

+179 -0

Previously, the between-posts ad was rendered through the `post-article` wrapper… outlet, which the nested replies view renders for the OP and for every reply at every depth — so ads appeared inside the OP card and scattered throughout the reply tree, gated by `post_number`, which does not reflect display order in that view. This change skips the between-posts ad in the nested replies view (via `shouldRender` on the `nestedReplyView` outlet arg) and adds an `AdBetweenNestedRoots` component rendered in the core `nested-roots-between` outlet, which shows an ad after every `show_between_posts` top-level replies instead. On Discourse versions without the `nested-roots-between` outlet the new component never renders, and the regular topic view is unchanged.

github.com/discourse/discourse-custom-topic-list-ads-component

UX: Add a dedicated ad cadence setting for the nested replies view (#26)

main ← nested-roots-ad-cadence-setting

opened 02:10PM - 11 Jun 26 UTC

xfalcox

+13 -3

Previously, ads between top-level replies in the nested replies view reused `sho…w_between_posts`, but that cadence counts all posts in the classic view while only roots count in the nested view — with `show_between_posts: 15`, a topic with hundreds of posts but few top-level replies showed barely any ads. This change adds a `show_between_nested_roots` setting (default 5) so the nested view cadence can be tuned independently, with 0 disabling nested-view ads. Follow-up to #25.

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