If I click the reply button next to a specific post, it seems to behave as though I clicked the Reply to Topic button instead. Is this a bug or an intentional change?
Thanks!
I think I noticed that too some time ago @wmtbt . I am writing this after clicking the Reply button on your post…
(edited to add… yes it appears also as a topic reply not a reply to specific post.)
What user interface difference would you expect to see if they worked differently? I had assumed that a Reply to post would have a different notification protocol than a Reply to topic would, but I have no evidence to support that assumption.
FWIW, the reply window in which I’m typing was opened using Reply to @TBTdn’s post, and just above the text field where I am typing, there is a pop-up menu that shows David. If I open the pop-up menu, I get the following, which suggests that I could change a Reply to post to a Reply to topic (which I did not do).
This time I’ve clicked the big blue Reply button to reply to the topic.
When I click the black Reply button lower right of a post, I anticipate that it can be displayed either with the post under a ‘x Replies’ icon:
or in the main flow of Topic responses. Additionally, in the main flow there is an icon upper right showing that it is in reply to a post:
Notifications might be different too, but that gets tricky with Discourse settings.
Although we’ve replied to each other with the black Reply button in this Topic, it’s not showing as such.
Interesting. Without digging more into the Discourse Help pages, this does seem a bit off.
Clicking the gray Reply button at the bottom of a post replies to that post, notifying the author and connecting the two posts with that Replies menu you commented on.
Clicking the blue Reply button at the bottom of a topic replies to the topic as a whole, notifying the topic author, if anyone.
The difference is subtle, but this reply uses the gray Reply button (to the message just above), not the blue one.
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Yes. You can change a comment-reply to a topic-reply or to a new topic using that menu.
If you reply to the topic (via the blue button at the bottom of the set of comments), you can use this menu to change it to a new linked topic.
Surprisingly, there is no way, from that interface, to reply as a DM to the author of a comment. To do that, you need to click on the author’s avatar and (if he is allowing messages) click the blue “Message” button from there, which will create a DM linked to the comment (you can then use the usual quoting mechanism to insert quoted content into the DM).
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There does seem to be something amiss with this feature in Discourse, not a high priority to me as I usually just scroll thru all Topic Replies. Today I noted in another thread that Post replies were not marked in the main thread as Post replies, as I’ve become accustomed to:
In this example the ddmiller reply was one of the two Post replies mentioned just above, but it lacks the ‘replied to post’ icon and avatar I was expecting to see next to ‘13d’.
Anyway, minor thing but does seem to be a thing.