I think GitHub Discussions* strikes a nice balance between hierarchical and chronological comments. The main comments are chronological, but you can also inlin

I think GitHub Discussions* strikes a nice balance between hierarchical and chronological comments. The main comments are chronological, but you can also inline reply to a main comment. So the hierarchy is restricted to one level deep. I think this design flows more naturally, you avoid deep branching, and you avoid quoting a comment that was 3 pages back. * https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/discussions https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/discussions