# Forum Software Meta
**URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/forum-software-meta/2218
**Category:** Community
**Created:** [June 2, 2026, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/forum-software-meta/2218 "2026-06-02T16:23:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2026, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/forum-software-meta/2218/1 "2026-06-02T16:23:02Z")
Discussion related to the forum software and settings.
This forum uses the Discourse open source software. They have a forum: [https://meta.discourse.org](https://meta.discourse.org)
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### Author:  [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2026, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/forum-software-meta/2218/2 "2026-06-02T16:23:52Z")
Discourse added a nested view but I found it unusable so far:
[Introducing nested replies - #46 by curi - Announcements - Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-nested-replies/402812/46?u=curi)
> On my forum, I don’t see a “view as flat” option like in the example screenshot.
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> For me, I need flat as the global default, with nested being an optional view that users can use when they want to, with flat always being readily available.
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> As long as it’s a “view as nested” button which people can toggle back off, this would be great. A per-user setting to switch to nested as the default would also be great as long as they can switch individual topics or all topics back to flat at will.
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> Without adequate controls to toggle between views, I’ll have to stick to flat.