This is a theme-related problem… as I’m sure you’ve noticed. Using my child theme – a slightly modified version of the default – nested comments work fine. With another theme – Fishbook – no nesting, no matter the settings in dashboard.
Agreed. I’m trying to hunt it down in the css so if anyone else has this solved already let me know and I’ll keep crunching away. As always, thanks to all for your help and to the BuddyPress team for such an awesome product.
Still happens with the default theme. Any ideas?
yeah, nested comments don’t seem to indent in the default theme…
I went in and tried to find the style…maybe I could put a right border on the comment or something like that. this is as far as i got:
http://screencast.com/t/YmVkYTBmM2Ut
I’m not quite to where I could make this change. I went into comments.php and added nonsense and didn’t see the change. For example, I changed the size of the avatar, but the change did not display…not sure where to make these changes. Can someone point me to the right file/style?
@dainismichel
In your WP Dashboard, go to “Settings” > “Discussion” and check “Enable threaded (nested) comments”
Folks apropos of threaded comments/nesting there was an issue with nested comments and posts in the bp-default theme, nested/threaded comments can’t work correctly. This has been fixed and is included in 1.2.6 so hang on a short while for that release due any day now.
that’s awesome…looking forward to it.
Odd, in my install (WP3.0.1/BP1.2.5.2/child-theme of bp-default), nested comments work just fine…
http://i37.tinypic.com/2ptaszm.png
huh…well 7 days ago, L8est WP and L8est BuddyPress…no go…
@pcwriter I was referring to BP’s handling of WP post comments which is borked – perhaps this thread wasn’t really talking about WP comments/replies?.
@hnla ok, so we should just hang out right, cuz this issue will go away with an upgrade soon? otherwise, i bet there’s a pretty easy little CSS trick one could pull…like adding a rt border to a style so all the “nested” comments have a line to the right of them, and then that line stops upon the next “thread-starting” comment…i just can’t find the right style to change…
it’s not a CSS issue the markup is malformed, trying to correct malformed markup with a presentations language is not a good idea CSS is predicated on well formed DOM structure it’s a symbiotic relationship if one is broken so id the other.
If you really need to fix quickly and are comfortable then access the comment function in the bp-default themes function.php file remove it to a functions file
in a child theme and look for the last closing tag and delete it, then comments will correctly nest within parent li elements. naturally then you’ll need to add any specific styling you want via CSS.
As the fix for this is in place and will filter through when versions are upgraded it would be pretty safe to edit the bp-default themes functions file to remove that one tag, but only this one time mind; as always though on ones own head be it! 
funny, i just upgraded, and i don’t see nested comments working on pages…
i was just wondering about this issue, because i have a community that i want to keep at “buddypress default.” in other words, it’s an “out the box community” however, i’d like it if the comments would nest. i’m at v. 1.2.6 and have not upgraded to 1.2.8, basically cuz it doesn’t say a new version is available under plugins.
does the theme update along with the plugin?
Theme updates along with plugin. 1.3 theme has nested comment styles fixed.
bp-default theme is updated along with the plugin. Nested comments will be available in BP 1.3
EDIT- took too long to answer, didn’t see you there DJPaul.
Can I get the fix to apply on top of 1.2.9?
