I meant threading in as much as the connections or links between message data All discord needs to store is: { channel_id, message_id, user_id, content, reply

I meant threading in as much as the connections or links between message data All discord needs to store is: { channel_id, message_id, user_id, content, reply_to, datetime } these days they added an extra thread_id field, sure. But the data itself is blisteringly uncomplex and there is only a single way to display it (ordered by time, i.e. the 'thread')