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What is the difference between comments view and post view?

Written by Thomas Danninger

replient.ai offers two main ways to organize and manage your incoming comments: Comments View and Post View. Each serves a different purpose and helps you work more efficiently depending on your workflow. You find both under Comments in the sidebar (Comment view and Post view). A third entry, Assigned to me, shows the comments that were assigned to you.

Comments View (Default)

Comments View displays all your comments in a chronological feed, showing the most recent activity first - similar to an inbox.

When performing any action on a comment it automatically moves the comment to done and the next comment will be auto-selected. You can override this behaviour on the Learning page: switch off Move comments automatically to done, if they were answered or liked to keep comments in the open tab.

When to use Comments View:

  • Daily monitoring - Check all new comments across all platforms in one place

  • Mixed content - When you're managing multiple posts and want to see everything together

  • Real-time response - Quickly tackle the newest comments as they arrive

  • Cross-post monitoring - See comments from different posts and platforms of your brand in a unified feed

How Comments View works:

Comments appear in a single stream, organized by time. You'll see:

  • The comment text

  • Who posted it

  • Which post it's on (with context)

  • Which platform (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, Google Reviews and the other connected review platforms)

  • Whether it's from an ad or organic post

  • Sentiment tags and any custom tags

  • AI reply suggestions (3 per comment)

You can filter this view by platform, sentiment, date range, tags, and more—making it easy to focus on specific types of comments without losing the chronological flow.

Best for:

✅ General daily comment management
✅ Responding to new activity as it happens
✅ Filtering specific types of comments (e.g., "show me all negative comments from Facebook ads this week")
✅ Teams working through a shared inbox

Post View

Post View groups all comments by the post they belong to, giving you a bird's-eye view of engagement on each piece of content.

When to use Post View:

  • High-volume posts - When one post has hundreds of comments, Post View helps you tackle them systematically

  • Contest management - Easily review all entries on a contest post in one place (replient.ai has no winner picker)

  • Campaign analysis - See how many comments a specific ad or campaign post receives and how many are still open

  • Content performance - Identify which posts are driving the most engagement

  • Contextual responses - When you need to understand the full conversation thread around a specific post

How Post View works:

Posts are displayed as rows, showing:

  • The newest comment (author, text and platform)

  • The post content (image/video preview and caption)

  • When the post was published and its Post ID (click it to copy)

  • The number of open comments and the total number of comments

Click a post to open all of its comments together, making it easy to:

  • Respond to multiple comments on the same topic without repeating yourself

  • See patterns in questions or feedback

  • Close all open comments of a post in one click (hover over the post and click the tick, or use Mark all as done and go to next post inside the post)

Best for:

✅ Managing viral posts or high-engagement campaigns

✅ Contest entries

✅ Seeing which ads or content get the most comments

✅ Reviewing all feedback on a particular post

✅ Working through high-volume comment threads post by post

Quick Comparison

Feature

Comments View

Post View

Organization

Chronological (newest first)

Grouped by post

Use Case

Daily inbox monitoring

High-volume post management

Best For

Mixed activity across posts

Focused work on specific content

Filtering

Filter across all posts

Filter the posts list, see all comments per post

Workflow

Triage new comments quickly

Deep-dive into post engagement

Pro Tips

In Comments View:

  • Use filters to focus on specific platforms, sentiment, or date ranges

  • Apply bulk actions to filtered comments for efficient moderation. See How do I handle giveaways and close many comments at once?

  • Filters persist in the URL, so you can bookmark or share specific filtered views with teammates

In Post View:

  • Check the Analytics Dashboard to see "Top Posts" by number of comments

  • Use this view to identify which ads or content to double down on

  • Perfect for working through high-volume posts one post at a time

Switching between views: You can easily toggle between Comments View and Post View from the sidebar. Both views use the same filters (for example platform, sentiment, tags and date range). Bulk actions, the Read/Unread filter and the Language filter are only available in Comments View.

Both views support the same actions, and open/done status is synced between the views:

✅ AI reply suggestions (3 per comment)

✅ Comment templates for quick responses

✅ Filtering by platform, sentiment, tags, and more

✅ Activity protocol to see what actions were taken

✅ Deep links to open comments on the native platform

More on replying: How do I reply to comments?

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