Yes there are two reply arrows; one replying to a specific post and one replying to the topic. Sometimes, when I click on the reply arrow to a specific post, it renders as a reply to a different post.
Remember, also that when you click reply, even if you don’t quote, the very top shows you which post you are replying to via the user name and avatar of the person you could quote if you wanted
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I have never experienced this, so I would be very interested to see if you had the possibility of doing a screen capture with video, or at least, giving me an example. The database doesn’t randomly assign replies.
As you can see above, I can tell I am replying correctly to yours, because it shows your user name at the very top of the reply box
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I’ll note the next time it happens and send a link.
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I’m replying to Todd’s most recent post, not the reply to topic post. As I did with my post immediately above.
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I clicked on reply to Todd again. Where does this post?
Edit: this posts correctly.
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this is how it works.
In @Neal.Mollen and @K_John_Joseph case that’s exactly what happened.
There were no indications because they were replying after each other. The only time the indication appeared is because sarah wrote and deleted a post that created a chain thread 5-6 posts down.
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Perfect concept
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Your reply is working as intended. You replied to Chris’ post which was actually a reply to KJJ so it created a threaded reply. If the website sees a chain developing it’ll link to the parent thread which in this case was @K_John_Joseph post.
for example - if I replied to your post in that thread chain, it’ll show KJJ as the initial link cause it wants you to see the whole nest of replies. This makes way more sense if there’s 6-8 post replies. For just a couple posts it’s not terribly relevant.
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Thanks for validating what happens/ed. I was unaware that the software threads replies to the master, rather than to the post to which the reply was intended, despite the link to the latter.
Which makes no sense, but now I get it. And will no longer be confused.
Haven’t read through the entire thread, but the little arrow referring back to the post you replied from does not appear if you are replying to the last post in the thread (i.e., if the posts are consecutive). If there are more posts following what you are replying to, you’ll see the arrow referring back.
Not sure that’s not even more confusing lol.
Learned a new feature, thanks!
It’s still doing what you want, it just shows “this is where the beginning of the thread is” since replies are in order in the thread. So by sorting logic, you’ll always see it in the order of replies when it’s threaded out and expanded.
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I think one of the issues is the combination of how replying to a comment without quoting works (a function that didn’t exist before) and the fact that people seem to use it a lot now instead of quoting, whereas the reply/quote function were the same in the old platform, so the quotes just happened. Those replies then get to be part of a chain which no longer contains direct references to the subject.
So when you reply to, but don’t quote, a comment, the link (with the little picture and arrow) is included and can be clicked and so the reference easily seen. But if someone else then replies to the reply, that reference doesn’t come along. So if people are discussing a specific wine, and the wine name itself is only referred to 2 posts ago or more, a reader will have to search up thread to see what people are talking about.
It’s not user error - people are using the reply function correctly, just choosing not to quote - and it’s not a bug, because the function is working properly. It’s just a result of people using that function in what becomes a back-and-forth where the initial wine in question is no longer easy to find.
Of course, the old quoting function ended up with tons of huge multi-embedded quotes which was irritating as well…
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In a reply with multiple embedded quotes, do you see the little up arrow, in addition to the curly arrow pointing to the person most recently quoted? That up arrow takes you to the earlier post. And from there you can also hit the “Replies” down arrow at the bottom to expand that thread branch.
It can be a bit confusing, but there are tools to let you navigate through any string of quoted replies.
I know how to use the buttons. I am not confused. They are not always there. I’m sure there’s a reason.
am i the only one using dark mode? it’s so much better.
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Sorry for trying to help.
And replying to see how this little branch appears.
I didn’t ask for help. I tried to explain whereI thought some of the issues were coming from.