Please do this, with them auto-collapsed the reply feature is significantly worse than just creating a new thread.

Is there any update on fixing this significant issue?

Threaded comments should be expanded automatically especially when using the activity search. Currently, they need to be expanded manually which makes the search very difficult.

Repeating other users' comments here but it's really necessary to get the replies to the comments visible so that you can see the whole conversation in a glance. The replies get easily lost and it's difficult to find them afterwards. Moreover, it does not help that the 'reply' symbol is so small or difficult to notice.

Additionally, it would be nice to have the same watchers to the replies as for the task by default. Most of the times when replying to a comment it contains information that's interesting to other watchers as well and would be beneficial to have a notification about it.

This feature request is 4.5 years old... The replies notification of a thread is so small and subtle that in a large page of text its incredibly easy to miss. This is a huge issue for us as replies are often missed. At the very least the indication that a comment has a threaded reply should be much bigger or even in a different color. But please just expand the replies by default.

+1 On this for sure. We flat out refuse to reply to comments becuase they are hidden and we miss things. PLEASE add this as an option to turn on by default

+1 on this.

This is super important to see the full history

+1 to this. As it is, threaded comments don't show when we save to PDF. This is a records retention issue when used to show discussion around financial transactions.

This is KILLING us.

People miss threaded comments with mission-critical information all-day, every day.

At the very least we should be able to disable threads but not lose content within any existing threaded comments. Otherwise, disabling threads hides the vast majority of existing comments.