# Is there any way to get Discourse to show more than one reply per thread?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-get-discourse-to-show-more-than-one-reply-per-thread/1005693
**Category:** Site Feedback
**Created:** [August 14, 2024, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-get-discourse-to-show-more-than-one-reply-per-thread/1005693 "2024-08-14T09:48:51Z")
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### Author:  [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2024, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-get-discourse-to-show-more-than-one-reply-per-thread/1005693/1 "2024-08-14T09:48:51Z")
Say I want to find a list of posts where John6565 mentions the word “obsidian”. He’s mentioned the word a lot in several threads, but as far as I can tell Discourse search results will only list the thread once regardless of how many posts if I search for @john6565 obsidian, equivalent to the “show results as threads” option in vbulletin. Any way to get “show results as posts” functionality?
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2024, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-get-discourse-to-show-more-than-one-reply-per-thread/1005693/2 "2024-08-14T22:02:22Z")
This isn’t really an answer to your question, but you can search within a thread once you find it.
It doesn’t give you a list of all the posts across the message board all at once, so it doesn’t do what you’re asking, and it’s certainly a pain if you have to go thread-by-thread when there are many threads. But it’s doable with time and effort if you really had to do it.
I do like your proposal and think it would be a good feature.