Prevent Reply to Post showing as a Reply to topic?

[Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin)]

Hi Garett, welcome here

Nested replies are likely not to happen on Discourse and it’s not on the roadmap. It would be huge work.
Even if someone was to develop a plugin to implement such a feature, it should probably be heavily maintained not to break along Discourse’s core changes over time.

Here’s a Discourse team member’s reply made to someone on marketplace who wanted to have nested replies:

@saquetim

nesting posts properly is a really large project to get done right.

In the frontend, you can get 90% of the job done relatively quickly, but as soon as you start using it, many things break, and the other 10% is really hard.

There is a lot of code in Discourse that expects the post to be displayed/read in a linear order.

There are also server-side implications that would need to be addressed, like how to keep track of unread posts, etc.