# Threaded Topics
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/threaded-topics/258895
**Category:** Marketplace
**Created:** [March 21, 2023, 2:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/threaded-topics/258895 "2023-03-21T14:24:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@PeakProsperity](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PeakProsperity)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2023, 2:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/threaded-topics/258895/1 "2023-03-21T14:24:41Z")
We would like a solution that enables us to do the following:
- Always nest replies under their parent post (i.e. don’t have them appear under “view replies” AND later in the main chronology)
- Allow “view replies” to be expanded by default
- Allow up to max 4 levels of reply nesting (instead of only 1 as permitted by core Discourse)
The data already stores infinite levels of nesting via each post’s parent ID, but we need to be able to express this on the front-end.
We’re looking for somebody who can do this quickly. Please contact me for further details or if you think you can do this work. Thanks.
– Aaron
PS: I realize Discourse is somewhat philosophically opposed to threaded conversations, but we love everything else about Discourse and our community (and business owner) is demanding we have threading.
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### Author:  [@saquetim](https://meta.discourse.org/u/saquetim)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2023, 1:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/threaded-topics/258895/4 "2023-03-23T13:49:06Z")
Hi @PeakProsperity,
Sorry to jump in on your marketplace topic, but I wanted to give you a heads-up that this may not be the best moment to start working on this.
We’re modernizing Discourse’s JavaScript codebase by replacing the widgets system with Glimmer components.
The post-stream is written using widgets, and we expect to start modernizing/rewriting it in the second semester.
Once that’s done, as the post-stream will be rewritten, any work you put on this now will need to be redone, or at the very least, heavily modified.
Hopefully, I have saved you some money. 😄
That said, about the project itself, 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.
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### Author:  [@PeakProsperity](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PeakProsperity)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2023, 2:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/threaded-topics/258895/5 "2023-03-23T14:21:08Z")
Thanks for the info!
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/threaded-topics/258895/7 "2023-04-22T14:29:36Z")
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