Ofnuts
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March 25, 2025, 9:18pm
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When I follow a topic, I can click on this at the bottom:
to reply to the thread in the general, or on this under any post:
To reply to the post. When I do so, I get the expected header that tells me I’m replying to a post:
But after I compose the reply and hit the reply button at the bottom, my reply is added as a general answer to the topic and not as a reply to a specific post. Am I the only one to see this?
It has always seemed pretty hit-or-miss to me, that is why I try and use quotes and @ replies to try and make it follow able.
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cedric
March 25, 2025, 10:07pm
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I find that these days it is necessary to select and copy text as a quote before hitting the post reply button. No quote, no attribution.
darix
(darix)
March 25, 2025, 10:16pm
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what do you mean with “follow a thread”?
Ofnuts
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March 26, 2025, 9:01pm
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Ofnuts:
Let’s see if that works
I see a quoted post, but that’s not exactly like a reply.
darix
(darix)
March 26, 2025, 9:05pm
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do you mind telling me what you mean with “follow thread”?
darix
(darix)
March 26, 2025, 9:05pm
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could this be a rendering issue if your reply is to the last post?
darix
(darix)
March 26, 2025, 9:07pm
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so in both cases i pressed the “reply” button on your post directly.
for the post that directly follows yours. it doesnt include the reference (your avatar) in the post. for the 2nd reply i replied to the post above it (which now says “2 replies” - which you can unfold btw) and there it shows the avatar.
does that help?
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cedric
March 26, 2025, 9:19pm
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I copy-quoted the above; then clicked on the post reply button; then pasted the quote; then wrote some text; then clicked on ‘Reply’ …
… I give up, it’s not showing at top right to whom I replied - and yet it often does.
darix
(darix)
March 26, 2025, 9:30pm
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quoted reply != reply to post
cedric
March 26, 2025, 9:32pm
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OK
Still no “replying to whom” indication, so I’m still out unless I find a magic sequence that works.
darix
(darix)
March 26, 2025, 9:40pm
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@cedric read the post i replied to here.
cedric
March 26, 2025, 9:46pm
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Link, please; you have replied to several posts, so I don’t know which one to read specifically.
Ofnuts
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March 27, 2025, 1:45am
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And then this one worked…
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darix
(darix)
March 27, 2025, 12:27pm
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did you actually read my post above which explains the logic?
cedric
March 27, 2025, 6:24pm
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who is “you” and and which post are you talking about?
Ofnuts
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March 28, 2025, 8:41am
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Sorta makes sense… So this one should be a reply to your post, since there are other posts in between…
Edit: it indeed is…
darix
(darix)
March 28, 2025, 9:55am
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and if you think about it, the current behavior avoids clutter (not showing unneeded UI elemengs) in the case where your reply is directly below the person to whom you reply.
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kaha
(Karl)
March 28, 2025, 10:25am
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However, if you reply to the post just above yours your reply is not obvious to others.
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