# Threaded comments when using Discourse for website comments?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/threaded-comments-when-using-discourse-for-website-comments/68426
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 20, 2017, 3:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/threaded-comments-when-using-discourse-for-website-comments/68426 "2017-08-20T15:25:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Sujan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sujan)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2017, 3:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/threaded-comments-when-using-discourse-for-website-comments/68426/1 "2017-08-20T15:25:39Z")
I am looking into [using Discourse for comments on a website of mine](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-discourse-comments-via-javascript/31963).
Is there a way to display the comments in a threaded style, like Disqus does by default (Example: [Optimized Ionic-Angular CSS Bundle for PWA :: Julien Renaux - Fullstack Software Engineer & founder | AI guru](https://julienrenaux.fr/2017/07/20/optimized-ionic-angular-css-bundle-for-pwas/#disqus_thread))?
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### Author:  [@Sujan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sujan)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2017, 3:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/threaded-comments-when-using-discourse-for-website-comments/68426/2 "2017-08-20T15:31:46Z")
(After reading through [Plugin: Ask me anything or Q&A format (threaded replies)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-ask-me-anything-or-q-a-format-threaded-replies/44950) and related and similar topics, this doesn’t really seem to be supported (yet))
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2017, 4:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/threaded-comments-when-using-discourse-for-website-comments/68426/3 "2017-08-20T16:48:09Z")
Discourse displays replies in flat form,though the threading is clear from the formatting. Discourse will likely never display threaded comments.
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### Author:  [@Sujan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sujan)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/threaded-comments-when-using-discourse-for-website-comments/68426/4 "2017-08-20T19:48:08Z")
> [@pfaffman](#):
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> though the threading is clear from the formatting
What do you mean by that?
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/threaded-comments-when-using-discourse-for-website-comments/68426/5 "2017-08-20T19:52:48Z")
Look above this post in the top right, you’ll see your avatar, showing that I clicked “reply” on your earlier post. You can click it to expand.
Similarly, you can see on your post above that it says “2 replies” - click that, and this post will appear underneath
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### Author:  [@Sujan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sujan)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2017, 9:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/threaded-comments-when-using-discourse-for-website-comments/68426/6 "2017-08-21T09:26:02Z")
Thanks, got it.
Hiding the “replies” in the direct view and triggering all these AJAX requests would be the view I am looking for 😉
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### Author:  [@danyalamriben](https://meta.discourse.org/u/danyalamriben)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 8:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/threaded-comments-when-using-discourse-for-website-comments/68426/7 "2019-07-25T20:07:31Z")
why won’t it display threaded comments ever?
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 8:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/threaded-comments-when-using-discourse-for-website-comments/68426/8 "2019-07-25T20:13:45Z")
It’s a fundamental decision behind the design of Discourse, see this blog post from one of our co-founders for more details [Web Discussions: Flat by Design](https://blog.codinghorror.com/web-discussions-flat-by-design/)
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 9:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/threaded-comments-when-using-discourse-for-website-comments/68426/9 "2019-07-25T21:14:57Z")
@danyalamriben, take look at my plugin:
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/fast-quote-plugin/120427?u=merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fast-quote-plugin/120427)
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### Author:  [@danyalamriben](https://meta.discourse.org/u/danyalamriben)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2019, 11:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/threaded-comments-when-using-discourse-for-website-comments/68426/10 "2019-07-25T23:41:01Z")
Thank you, we’ll try this out and report back!
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2023, 11:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/threaded-comments-when-using-discourse-for-website-comments/68426/11 "2023-01-24T11:48:27Z")
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2023, 12:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/threaded-comments-when-using-discourse-for-website-comments/68426/12 "2023-01-24T12:28:20Z")