This is seriously the worst design. It does not lend to ease of use, much less foster meaningful discussions where the students (and professor) can easily scroll the thread to read and interact with other students. Everything has to be opened with the "reply." Also, if I need to find a comment or even want to double back to check on a thread I started, I have to open every single table to find where I even started the discussion. This is time-consuming and frustrating. Also, there is a huge glitch in the system, and the posts are not always coming up sequentially. Please put the system back the way you had it, OR at least allow people to choose between the old version and this new version if that is what they prefer. There was no reason to change something that was working quite well. This version does not promote or foster easy discussions, which is the entire point of a discussion feed. If you have to actually look for a response, students aren't going to take that extra step. So, they are missing my comments and those who respond to them as they can't automatically see the posts without taking the step to hit that reply button. So now, they just randomly choose who to respond to because they don't think to click on everything "reply" to see where I have prompted a group chat/discussion based on what someone posted.
