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Whats up with flat/threaded/nested comments?

April 26, 2017comments flat nested threaded

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Whats up with flat/threaded/nested comments?

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These are just different ways of displaying what can be a rather long list of comments. Here’s the rundown: • Flat mode displays all the comments in one gigantic list, without showing anything in the way of relationships between comments. • Threaded shows a hierarchy of responses, with replies as links to new pages. • Nested displays the same hierarchy of responses, but displays all of the comments. (This can be a bitch of a page to render on weaker platforms and in longer discussions.

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These are just different ways of displaying what can be a rather long list of comments. Here’s the rundown: • Flat mode displays all the comments in one gigantic list, without showing anything in the way of relationships between comments. Flat Mode • Threaded shows a hierarchy of responses, with replies as links to new pages. Threaded Mode • Nested displays the same hierarchy of responses, but displays all of the comments. (This can be a bitch of a page to render on weaker platforms and in longer discussions.