I am hoping that I am just missing an option in the settings! If so I would appreciate a pointer.
I find it hard to follow topics when replies are added chronologically. Since I can already see them by opening them via the ‘fold out’ triangle then I really dont need to see them again further down the page without their context.
I’ve been on here for more than 5 years and this is the first time I’ve seen this kind of topic. To answer your question: It’s not possible to make posts not chronological on here.
Interesting way of phrasing it. It’s possible to open the post further up for context. I’m so used to it, it’s even one of the ways I keep track of my own updates in the “every day” challenges.
I think fundamentally the way Discourse expects you to read a thread is in chronological order, not by expanding the replies as you go. (In fact I had not previously realised that that was possible.) People contributing to the conversation in a thread won’t necessarily do it by replying to an individual post, even if their reply is effectively a response to that post.
Thanks, both. Seems I not in luck 
For me this (the chronology) is fine for a post with a tightly scoped subject but gets pretty crazy on big topics that go off in different directions. I was triggered to ask by the current New Dashboard post.
Best way to alleviate the confusion it seems is to quote the bit you are replying to, for the missing context.
Yeah, fortunately threads rarely get as much traffic as the announcement thread after a major update. The thread gets so many replies, the longer it gets, the more people can’t be bothered to read all the replies because they so strongly want to voice their opinion, not knowing other people have said the same thing several times already.
