This feedback would probably be better directed at the https://discourse.org project itself, as migrating another time would worsen the searchability of knowledge. Additionally, Discourse is the most popular choice for FOSS forums for a reason & even popular proprietairy competitors like WoltLab don’t support threading (or at least don’t have it enabled per default, idk). So the demand for threads seems to be low. The real question is why. The 1st obvious thing that comes to my mind is the loss of inter-thread engangement, where information is distributed over many threads and you either don’t find everything (, too) or have to read everything until you found a solution, anyway. The 2nd thing is driving off-topic, which really is the main problem of the SFOS forum. Threads would organize around this issue, not really prevent it, maybe even encourage that solution for problem X is in a thread on a post regarding problem Y. Other Discourse forums that I visit (ROS, Haskell, Django, Seafile) do not have the problem with many OT comments.
This is most likely caused by the endless never-ending arguments about the same stuff in here, causing forum posts to look more a Reddit post than technical support or announcements. I think the should be more seperated & neverending back-forth argument posts should be locked to lessen the flood of repetitive information.
