I noticed the new structure of the comments, I think it’s fantastic! I personally don’t think at the moment it’s so much about ‘your post’ as it is that your post is the foundation or suggestion of the idea. Even if it were in a forum layout, that wouldn’t change.

Also, forums take (as I am sure you know) a lot of time and mean something inherently different within themselves.

Perhaps a different solution which could be a new widget idea is a “Current Conversations” widget. I imagine this could work a variety of different ways.

I’ve actually just changed the structure of my comments to allow for some threading. I’m hoping that will advance the conversation even more. I’m wanting to add some public forums to the discussions, too…so it becomes less about my post and more about the conversation itself.