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Improve hierarchy of threads, top-level comments, and replies

Problem to solve

Replies in threads with the new boxed layout can be hard to distinguish from top-level comments.

Further details

Proposal

Consider better information hierarchy separating replies in threads by for example indenting. To give an example:

Slack does this as well, although doesn't allow inline expanding of threads.

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What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

It is easy at any step (Even if an issue/MR/epuc has many normal comments and replies) to discern which kind of comments are which.

Links / references

cc: @annabeldunstone @pedroms @victorwu

Edited by Pedro Moreira da Silva