Nestedhierarchical comment structure

Tanner

I am no fan of threaded discussions as it messes up conversations and almost requires infinite levels in order to make it work properly. I'm in favor of flat threads when it comes to forums.

julian

@Tanner so are we, although prevailing winds suggest that there is a significant demand for the option, even if it's not the best for all sites.

babaggeii

@julian I'm not an expert here, but it seems to me your semantic HTML option looks best - it defines the structure and leaves CSS layer free for the developers. I guess, also, that it's easier to target elements that way rather than with named classes, which don't easily allow for complex/dynamic targeting of elements.

babaggeii

@julian is there any movement on an option for these nested comments?

Manan

is this implemented?

a_5mith

No. It isn't. Not sure the demand for this is worth the development time either.

Manan

@a_5mith Can it be implemented as a plugin? I am a noob to nodebb plugin development but I can find some time to learn and do it if it is doable.

PitaJ

@manan it could be implemented as a plugin. It would require a lot of time to do something like that though.

Gaelle Lo

@julian Congats for releasing v1.0! What's coming next? Any plans to update this plugin?
https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-threaded-replies

ViolentCrumble

@julian said in Nestedhierarchical comment structure:

Hey @solis,

I'm a fan of flat discussions, mostly because almost all attempts to build threaded discussions end up quite bad. My prime example is mailing lists, where after descending down into threads, you're inevitably lost.

That said, we did look into whether this was feasible, and the good news is it is fairly straightforward to do.

We may include it as an option in a future build of NodeBB

Did this happen? i totally would love nested comments!

ViolentCrumble

@Gaelle-Lo said in Nestedhierarchical comment structure:

@julian Congats for releasing v1.0! What's coming next? Any plans to update this plugin?
https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-threaded-replies

wait.. does that work?

trevor

@ViolentCrumble said in Nestedhierarchical comment structure:

@Gaelle-Lo said in Nestedhierarchical comment structure:

@julian Congats for releasing v1.0! What's coming next? Any plans to update this plugin?
https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-threaded-replies

wait.. does that work?

Two years ago? I doubt it. On an older (much older) version of NodeBB it does.

jmtrik

@julian If you want to preserve the flat forum style does it follow that q&a is not recommended on the nodebb platform or do you have a better work flow to suggest.

I am happy to do things a different way, but I guess users looking for answers who don't want to post questions will most likely look for a highest voted answer or something like this.