Request to Restore Activity Feed Replies Visibility Option

"Please put the replies back in the activity feed by having an option in the dashboard to display like it used to! Replies have always been visible but now I can't update because replies are hidden. Our users pay us to be in the boards and to read replies by an instructor but to have to click every reply and get a pop up before knowing what they might see -- a helpful comment from the instructor or a smiley emoji from another student? It's broken the boards for us and we are still using 2.5.20 because we need the replies to show up. Can you comprehend looking at all the ""view replies"" links and each and every one must be clicked and open a pop up to see if it was even worth clicking?! Horrible