While the current way is technically correct, I'd like to see "comments" and "replies" combined into a single stat for external display.
When separated, you might have 2 comments and 40 replies or vice versa. The stats then don't necessarily represent the overall amount of engagement on that topic. I feel like other forums combine this count. Has that been discussed?
Does anyone else agree?
Makes sense, we'r changing it so in question it will show answer and replies counts and in discussion only accumulated comments count.
Change came through on our site, looks great and members are already noticing. Thank you!