It seems like the plugin isn’t being maintained anymore. In our case we actually started to develop our own custom theme component with the working title “Journal view” which our community seems to like so far.
What the TC basically does is to filter posts by the topic owner with some visual CSS adjustments to the reply and comment buttons. That way we get a clean timeline and no poststream modification.
If anyone is curious and wants to test it, leave a few likes and I might create a topic in Dev 