# Threaded discussion is ultimately too complex to survive on the public Internet?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/threaded-discussion-is-ultimately-too-complex-to-survive-on-the-public-internet/63172
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [May 23, 2017, 2:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/threaded-discussion-is-ultimately-too-complex-to-survive-on-the-public-internet/63172 "2017-05-23T02:43:49Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2019, 3:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/threaded-discussion-is-ultimately-too-complex-to-survive-on-the-public-internet/63172/5 "2019-07-26T03:26:27Z")

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If you _really_ need full bore threaded, Discourse is not for you, I’d pick some other free open source tool.

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