My opinion is the same as what I said before. I like the Github Discussions implementation and have found it attractive and user-friendly over the past few months of using it. Exactly the opposite of the current CI forum where every moment after entering I decide to hit the close browser button 😂.

But the reality is that its implementation is a bit complicated, although I think it can be implemented with the help of Cell and Htmx.

I don't know where the final decision will be, but I want to remind team that one of your goals for implementing the new forum is to get out of the current situation of the CI forum. I think backwards compatibility (MyBB , table ...) should not cause us to lose the modern implementation.

If we want to introduce it, I think we could do it similar to this:

• We can grab all the posts for which parent_id is NULL
• Then get the last 2/3 replies for every post (if there are any at all). And display it with parent post.
• If a user wants to load more replies, there will be a button for it ("load more replies" or something).
• This way we can still have "normal" pagination for top-level posts

It looks good on paper.

I agree that the GitHub style threading works nicely. I think @michalsn suggestion for how the replies would work makes perfect sense. It manages to combine the GitHub style with a Facebook style and I think that would work great.

Since the current CI forums are not threaded I think we can proceed without concern for those posts.