Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5810007-20200514195154/@comment-5810007-20200516235030

It's really not. YouTube's comment section allows for separate comment threads.

Every comment on YouTube is essentially a reply to the video, the overarching topic of the comment section. YouTube allows you to reply to these replies, starting a comment thread. To stick with the diagram, imagine someone asks "What's your favorite fruit?" at the end of their video. The comment section would look something like n+2.

Compare that to Discussions - every comment is a reply to the overarching thread topic, but you *cannot* directly reply to any of these individual replies. So if someone starts a thread asking "What's your favorite fruit?", it will look like n+1. A linear feed of comments with no organization past the "@mentions", very similar to a Discord server chatroom.

What you just described, an original comment + a list of replies, is exactly what I'm asking for.