I run a flat forum, to make it less confusing for phpbb users. The reply link on each comment is unnecessary and confusing, and will generate threaded comments, which I don't want (due to problems with deleting comments with children and whatnot).

This patch allows you to to turn that off.

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comment.reply.link.patch1.7 KBWesley Tanaka

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moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented
Status: Needs review » Closed (won't fix)

this should be hidden by the theme IMO

varunvnair’s picture

varunvnair commented

Till now I was under the impression that setting Default display mode (in admin » comments » configure » Comment viewing options) actually made all the comments unthreaded i.e. really flat. I just realised that comments are always threaded and only the display of comments can be set to threaded or flat. In such a scenario it would be better if the theme handled the hiding of the 'Reply' link.

However making comments actually flat (not the display only) should be considered. If the comments were actually flat then the hiding of the link should be done by the comment module and not by the theme developer.

Wesley Tanaka’s picture

Wesley Tanaka commented

The comments are flat, if all replies are created with the comment form instead of via one of the reply links. By suppressing the per-comment reply link, you can be fairly certain that (modulo people typing in a comment-specific reply URL manually) the comments on your nodes will all directly be children of the node instead of other comments.

Marandb’s picture

Marandb commented

Ok... Sounds like removing the reply link via the theme is the best option. So, what is the best way to go about doing this? I am sure it varies a little bit from theme to theme (engines?). Lets start with PHPTemplate.

This bugs me alot on my site & would make moderating comments ALOT easier if the reply was done away with (in a flat list scenario).

Is this the proper place for this or do we start another thread. Please let me know.

-- Marand B.

Wesley Tanaka’s picture

Wesley Tanaka commented

I haven't looked into that yet, I just run my site with the attached patch.