Nested answers in a thread

[ndoktoruser]

Hello everyone,

is it possible to create nesting structures for answers given by the users?
Something like reddit has. Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/commen...aching_austin/ .

[Mark.B]

No that is not possible in vB5, sorry.

you can have users comment on posts which sits the comment within the post they are commenting on.

[glennrocksvb]

That might be possible but only up to 3 levels of nesting. This is because vB5 only allows comments to a reply and not comments to a comment.

[ndoktoruser]

Hi, Glenn.

Is there a tutorial to do it?

[LCTlive]

Mark.B
Glenn Vergara
Wayne Luke


Checking in for an update on this, since this page is a few years old -- Is nesting now possible?

Since reddit and discus have nesting, and have become increasingly widespread since this question was asked.

And a follow-up question in advance, is nesting possible with the downloaded/server-installed vbulletin.org software?

[Wayne Luke]

Not as deep as reddit. vBulletin allows two levels of nesting... Replies and Comments.

In order for users to create comments, they must have the "Can Comment" permission set to yes for their Usergroup and comments need to be turned on Globally under Settings → Options → Message Posting and Editing Options.

If it is the indentation you want then you can probably do something like:

.b-post--text {
  margin-left: 10 px;
  width: calc (100% - 10px);
}

[LCTlive]

OK, understood, and that should work for now.

When we have more traffic, and we change to a self-installed vBulletin, can we modify that to allow nested comments like with reddit and discus?

[Wayne Luke]

If you have the download version, you have access to the templates and source code. With a sufficiently proficient Full Stack PHP Developer, you should be able to do whatever you want.