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Rather than expanding the comments, I'd rather see comment integrated into the Forums.
Create a NEWS forum and every news item automatically creates a thread there for comments. And all comments in that thread are displayed under the news item. Seamless integration. Easy to quote. Can use all of the forum features. Elegant.
Creating a comments module that is separate from the forum module is several steps backwards. IMNSHO of course.
Xoops needs integration and seamless access to data between modules. News, forums, image handling, file handling, tags, quotes, avatars.... They all need to access one another rather than the current situation where you need to hack things to make pieces of data available to other modules.
Let's move forward, not backwards.
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