Clarification : only one more level wanted
I want to have a single level of comments, put below an answer. Really like stackoverflow. No need for deep depth nor deep tree nesting. The basic idea is that we often don’t want long chit-chat, but just send a discrete note and request for clarification, so the answer can be clarified where it is (author come back and improve his answer) rather than go into a pingpong discussions.
As for Stackoverflow, I would consider we either react-reply-answer to the topic’s question via an answer, or we react-reply-comment to an answer via a comment on it. I’am aware this is not the out of the box way of discourse, but I would like to have this possibility available.
Reply to multiple earlier post ?
I have difficulties to understand your “reply to multiple earlier posts” tho. You mean a reply (post=“6”) to a reply (post=“5”) to a reply (post=“3”)… produce that post 5 actually reply_to_postnumber="4, 3, 2" ??
* Question (post=2)
** reply (post="3" reply_to_postnumber="2")
*** reply (post="4" reply_to_postnumber="3")
**** reply (post="5" reply_to_postnumber="4")
and would be a challenge ?
Possible approach.es
I think I could approach that like Stackoverflow, and helped by some clean CSS, make post=“3” an answer to post=“2”, and post=“4” and post=“5” both comments of post=“3”, very much like Stackoverflow.
But rather that this hack of current structure, it could be easier to have a plugin which ADD a new comment array of objects, attached/attachable to an answer. For the visual design, these comments being tiny in font-size, limited in number of characters, compact by design.