Comments as nodes in forums?

It is possible that the forum module has dependencies on comment.module that haven't been considered. Your experience trying this out on a test site is welcome.

Yes, you can have different node types as comments for different node types. There is no technical reason why, sometime down the road, there couldn't be multiple possible types as comments (or no restrictions on type...), but we wanted to start simple. Plus there are UI questions to be answered if multiple types can be used.

Sorry to reopen this, but is there a reason that the forum module no longer works? Is there something I have to do to change this functionality?

There is a forum module in the works that basically mimics the current forum module's behavior, only with node comments. I'm not the one working on this, but I believe the problem is a number of assumptions made in forum.module about the existence of comment.module.

I am also having and issue with node comment module working with the forum module. The forum says there is a new forum topic, but the forum topic number stays at zero. When you click on the forum topic it doesn't display any of the topics. when you add a new forum topic it says page is not found. Is there any fix to this issue?

Hi, May be nodeforum is the answer to this. Nodeforum uses nodecomment :)
I posted here a 90% working version..:http://drupal.org/files/issues/nodeforum.module_0.txt

greetings,
Martijn