"in any case is attached to the specific comment to which it is a response"

This is no longer true (most of the time) in the new indentation model. However, there are still two different options:

• Posts that create diagonal tangents (this happens when you reply to a post that is not the last of the level)
• Posts that continue the conversation vertically.

Originally, we called the first one Comment, and the second Reply. I said it would be clearer the other way around, but we ended up with Reply for both. I expect @DannyH will want to keep monitoring for a while, but this is something we could look again at in a while.

In T94961#1176822, @Mattflaschen wrote:

Originally, we called the first one Comment, and the second Reply. I said it would be clearer the other way around, but we ended up with Reply for both. I expect @DannyH will want to keep monitoring for a while, but this is something we could look again at in a while.

To clarify, I think a post that creates a diagonal layer should say "Reply", and a post that goes down vertically (doesn't create a visual tangent) should say "Comment".

+1 for this. Having experienced this ambiguity for myself over the last few days, I gotta agree that having Reply and Reply mean two different things makes it hard to know what's going on. I'm sure there's good arguments against that, but I have no time to read up too much. Just my 2c as a user.