I wonder if they've tried keeping all comments at the same width, while indenting children by a visible amount? That is: |---screen---| |-comment--|

I wonder if they've tried keeping all comments at the same width, while indenting children by a visible amount? That is: |---screen---| |-comment--| |--reply---| |--reply---| That way you'd have to scroll down+right to follow a thread, but at least you could tell the difference between children and siblings, and never get super-narrow posts deep in a thread.