Introducing nested replies

News and Events Announcements
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At first I thought it was amusing that this announcement wasn’t in nested-reply format; then realized you weren’t ready to reformat the whole News and Events > Announcements category. :slightly_smiling_face:

Here’s some resources I collected when new to Discourse and understanding the flat model:
Jeff’s canonical take:

A nicely-done outside note:

Why Discourse uses “Topics” rather than “Threads” (from 2017, before `nested-replies’ was invented.

and for a deeper dive into threads:

I really agreed with Kris’ @awesomerobot defense of the flat model as fitting CDCK’s community building and engagement model. While we may adopt nested-replies for some admin categories–useful for issue tracking–I’ll be slow to implement it for general discussion categories.

Lastly, while I may implement nested-replies, I will sorely miss infinite scrolling. I have a nice mouse with a handy free-spinning scroll wheel, but nothing beats grabbing the infinite scroll bar slider and quickly moving through a topic.

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