I’m still really confused about why this works the way it does, but maybe it’s working as intended? What I see matches the screenshots, but not what I’m expecting given the descriptions of the settings.
Why does the “Discourse Link” never get used unless I display the actual comments? More particularly, why do I only get a single button and not the text of the “Join the Discussion” setting, which is described as “Text used after posts with comments on Discourse, but no comments that are displayed on Discourse. This is combined with the ‘Discourse link text’ to create a link to your forum.”?
Likewise, why does the participants heading and participants display disappear when I don’t display comments?
Screenshots to show what I’m asking about:
Here’s a post with no comments. I wouldn’t expect changing the setting to load comments or not to make any difference. But it does make a big difference:
vs comments not loaded:
Likewise, a lot changes based on loading or not loading comments after there are a comment or two:
vs
