I want the nested comments feature to be added to the forum.

Hi, Discourse doesn’t use nested replies as it’s against their philosophy: [image] Replies in tree structure Support Discourse follows the flat model for discoussions: If you are looking for a threaded/tree-like software there is https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

Hi there, as what @Canapin said above, Discourse doesn’t use nested replies. Not quite the same, but when posts have replies to, you can see an arrow with a button with the number of replies, where clicking it will show replies (kind of threaded-like): [Screenshot_20251030_204843_Chrome] You can can something similar with this plugin too: [image] Journal Plugin Plugin information_source Summary Turn a Discourse topic into a one-to-many journal where one user can post entries that other users comment on hammer_and_wrench Repository Link https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-journal open_book Install Guide How to install plugins in Discourse Watch this video for an introduction to the plugin: How to get started First, enable journaling for a category in the category settings. Click “Settings” on the left, scroll down to the bottom,… And perhaps: [image] Discourse Post Voting Plugin discourse2 Summary Discourse Post Voting allows the creation of topics with votable posts. open_book Install Guide This plugin is bundled with Discourse core. There is no need to install the plugin separately. Features To create a new topic with votable posts open the menu in the top left of the composer and select ‘Toggle Post Voting’: [post voting toggle] With the topic in Post Voting mode, there’s a filter to sort answers by votes or by activity. Here’s an example …

Hi @d4c3 and welcome to our community. Plenty of existing conversation about nested comments/threading that you can explore here. Closing.

Nested comments feature

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Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin) October 30, 2025, 11:41am 2

Hi,
Discourse doesn’t use nested replies as it’s against their philosophy:

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