# Conversation mode (treeview)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/conversation-mode-treeview/285253
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [November 12, 2023, 3:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/conversation-mode-treeview/285253 "2023-11-12T15:04:14Z")
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### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2023, 3:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/conversation-mode-treeview/285253/2 "2023-11-12T15:06:35Z")

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No, that’s not how Discourse works.

> [@Threaded discussion is ultimately too complex to survive on the public Internet?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/threaded-discussion-is-ultimately-too-complex-to-survive-on-the-public-internet/63172/5):
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> If you _really_ need full bore threaded, Discourse is not for you, I’d pick some other free open source tool.

> [@Threaded discussion is ultimately too complex to survive on the public Internet?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/threaded-discussion-is-ultimately-too-complex-to-survive-on-the-public-internet/63172):
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> In 2012, Jeff’ wrote that he thought [“threaded discussion is ultimately too complex to survive on the public Internet.”](https://blog.codinghorror.com/web-discussions-flat-by-design/) Since it’s been nearly another 6 years, I was wondering if he still saw flat threads as the wave of the future, considering threaded conversations continue to be used by the largest and fastest growing social sites(Facebook, Imgur, Reddit)? Given the apparent acceptance, perhaps even preference, of threaded design by these hundreds of millions of users, would he now be willi…

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