No indication of which post is being replied to
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Reply to the most recent post in a topic (by author A) without quoting it. Discourse does not create a link to the post being replied to, because it is the previous post and the context is ostensibly obvious. I would prefer that it created the link anyway, for consistency, but that's the way it's designed to work.
Bug: As above, but person B also replies to A, and B's post gets in before yours. Discourse still does not link to (or indicate in any other visible way) the post you're replying to, so now it appears you're replying to B instead of A. This can be a barrier to understanding (although not actually reading, so I guess it's ok with Jeff) if you have written something like "I agree with this," assuming the referent of "this" will be apparent from the immediately previous post, but the new immediately previous post (B's) says something completely different than A's.
Expected: Discourse should detect that the post being replied to is no longer the immediate predecessor of the reply, and should insert the appropriate link.
Filed under: I agree with whatever Morbs just said.
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This definitely slows me down when trying to read stuff. Or decide if something's been replied to yet.
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Discourse does not create a link to the post being replied to, because it is the previous post and the context is ostensibly obvious
No, this setting has been disabled here for weeks. Even if you reply (without quoting) to the previous aka last post in the topic, there will be an in-reply-to link at the top right of it.Unless another mod disabled that setting recently, but seems unlikely?
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I think the cause is due to which reply button gets clicked, as seen here for Arantor responding to my post (has the message) vs clicking the reply button at the bottom of a topic:
Though doing a post as a reply to someone doesn't have the reply indicator if you quote more than one person (as my post in the image was a response to Arantor, but lost the indicator cause I quoted more than one person).
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I'm replying to the last post just to test.
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Hmm...I guess I was talking about something different, where you get the little greyed out Replies thingy. I use that as a clue to know when something has been responded to.
Edit: It looks like the immediate reply shows there if there is another reply, so that seems like an real bug.
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my post in the image was a response to Arantor, but lost the indicator cause I quoted
Correct, if you quote someone, that is the reply indicator.Bear in mind that a post can "reply" to (n) different posts, either upstream or on other topics altogether.
The in reply to indicator at the upper right of a post only applies when all of the following are true:
- you replied to a single post
- you did not quote any part of that post
your reply is not directly under the post it is replying to(disabled here)
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I'm replying to the last post just to test.
I see the little reply indicator on that, but this one is done using the end of thread reply button so shouldn't have the indicator.EDIT: And now I see @codinghorror's explanation of the indicators things make more sense. Didn't realize that quoting suppressed the in reply to indicator.
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The in reply to indicator at the upper right of a post only applies when all of the following are true:
- you replied to a single post
- you did not quote any part of that post
your reply is not directly under the post it is replying to(disabled here)
This seems to be unreliable:
@boomzilla replied to a single post. (There was only one post in the topic, so he couldn't have replied to more than one.) He did not quote any part part of the post. By that logic, his post should have an "in reply to" indicator, but it doesn't.
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Alternatively, he didn't reply to any posts, like I'm doing right now.
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Alternatively, he didn't reply to any posts, like I'm doing right now.
You mean like when you push the Reply button at the bottom of the topic?
Filed under: What is a post? A miserable pile of secrets., But enough discourse, have at you!
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You mean the + Reply button?
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You mean the <big><b>+</b> Reply</big> button?
The really sad thing is, I wanted to copy the icon but I couldn't figure out how.
Filed under: It somehow did not occur to me that it's just a +.
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http://bash.org/?330261
If ever a domain needed to be OneBox-able...
Filed under: In my defense, it's one of those FontAwesome things., Why can't we use it in our posts?
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Filed under: What is a post? A miserable pile of secrets., But enough discourse, have at you!
+100 internets to you sir.
Filed under: And then you get killed by the glass
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This post is deleted!
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It doesn't scale with the font though. Actually, that seems like a bug/feature request. Emoji should match font size.
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Just to clarify, there are two things maybe being discussed here:
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The "in reply to" link at the top of posts. Generally this only shows up when you do not quote any posts.
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The "replies" link at the bottom of posts. This will show up for any downstream post that quotes or explicitly replies to the target post.
For both of the above, we generally suppress when:
- there is only one reply
- the reply is directly above or directly above the current post
Why? Well, for one thing, an expansion that shows you the thing already on your screen that is 1 post above or below what you're looking at right now is not exactly helpful..
However, suppression of in reply to (e.g. "directly above") is disabled here. So you'll see that indicator.
Anyway, no bug here, so moving to meta.
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@boomzilla replied to a single post. (There was only one post in the topic, so he couldn't have replied to more than one.) He did not quote any part part of the post. By that logic, his post should have an "in reply to" indicator, but it doesn't.
It seems to me (based on the observed behavior) that discourse does not consider the OP in a topic a post. Discourse appears to treat any replies to the OP as replies to the topic.
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It seems to me (based on the observed behavior) that discourse does not consider the OP in a topic a post.
A mitigating factor is that we tend to avoid the original topic anyway.
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Discourse appears to treat any replies to the OP as replies to the topic.
Correct, unless you specifically quote the first post.
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Anyway, no bug here, so moving to meta.
Derp. I just looked again at my post that prompted me to file this report. I did quote a few words of the post I replied to; that's why I didn't get the "in reply to" link. I am TRWTF.
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If ever a domain needed to be OneBox-able...
I can never remember if I'm on bash or qdb.