Card #2138 · Discourse Meta
Nested Replies feature causes message displacement and disappearance
The experimental Nested Replies feature is causing critical issues where replies are shuffled to unrelated threads or disappear entirely. Users report that disabling the feature does not always revert the state and can lead to error pages for missing messages.
Pain score
0.17/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach0.40distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency1.00freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement1.00upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization0.50willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 2 verified quotes
replies to unrelated threads are appearing as ‘nested’ responses to user posts, and much of any given thread can simply disappear
posted messages just disappeared. I disabled it - and got an error page for missing message for every post in every category
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