Hello Thomas,

Sorry but I am not really sure if I understand you here. In conversations, you cannot comment in a conversation. You can only post replies within a conversation.

Conversations and discussions are 2 separate features altogether and you should not get them mixed up.

OK I have to clarify: I got confused that someone commented on a feed item mentioning that I created a new discussion but he intended to post a reply in the discussion. So he should have clicked "Reply discussion" instead of "Comment". If I want to prevent this I have to delete the respective feed item...

I'm still confused about the difference between discussions and conversations. Can you clarify or point me to where I can find explanations?

Thanks.

Hello Thomas,

Hm, sorry but I am also a little lost here. What do you mean by click on "Reply discussion" instead of "Comment"?

See the attached screenshot: it's just a post in the stream that a new discussion has been created. A member wanted to take part in the discussion but did not click "Reply discussion" but commented on the post directly. To avoid this confusion, I'd like to have the opportunity to disable Comments in stream posts that refer to discussions.

Hi,

Currently, comments are just "comments" on stream and is not carried forward to discussion's reply. We will see if we can include this feature in the future.

If you would like to disable comments on discussion stream item, for groups, go to the file /media/com_easysocial/apps/group/discussions/discussions.php, change line 256 from:

$item->comments 	= $comments;

To:

$item->comments 	= false;

Thanks for your quick reply but I'm afraid that the hack is not working. You can see the live website when logging in with the credentials given in my account at StackIdeas.

Hi,

Oh sorry the code that I've provided only affects stream item on group and events page.

For stream item on dashboard/profile page, add this code in the file /media/com_easysocial/apps/user/groups/groups.php after line 368:

$item->comments = false;

For events, add this code in /media/com_easysocial/apps/user/events/events.php after lin 218:

$item->comments = false;

Great! That's it. Thanks.
Will you note this as a feature request for future versions?

Thanks for this - I also have been in a conversation with Mark about how "unintuitive" this is - that a user is quite likely to comment on a discussion that appears in the main stream without realising that it won't then be a part of the discussion. ( http://stackideas.com/forums/discussion-items-in-a-group-are-no-longer-showing )

For now it makes sense to just get rid of "Comment" so will try your suggested tweak, but ideally a comment should become part of the discussion but I guess that would mean discussions would need to support the "thread" type structure (which would be great as would discussions also supporting the @ fetaure to mention other people.)

Have made a Voices vote for this

http://stackideas.com/voices/easysocial/item/538

Hi,

Thanks for sharing.