Could we change the info included in replies?

I wonder if we could do what the discord does with replies - ie, include the username and a little quote of the opening of the post you’re replying to. I like the chronological flow, rather than replies directly under their referents. But I never pay attention to most people’s thumbnails. If I do recognize one it’s because they’re a frequent poster and I often don’t remember what they said recently. If I could see who said it and the start of what they said I wouldn’t have to click nearly as often to see which post people are responding to

  1. do others agree this would be helpful? And

  2. can the forum software do something like this?

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I think I know what you mean but would need to see it. I think other forums use this and is good if we talking about same thing.

Show us an example of it.

you mean like this?

it’s built in if the person replying uses it

to quote, simply highlight the text and click “quote”

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I mean something like the way it’s done in the 420vz discord

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So that you can see who/what the current post is replying to so we don’t have to tap the thumbnail of the person and load the whole post to remind ourselves if we’ve been following the conversation but it’s a while between replies

What I was hoping you could do was replace the extra tiny thumbnail (or add - I don’t care) with the username of the person that post is replying to and the first line of that post.

I agree, it makes following individual topics within a general stream easier. While we can add the quote when replying, it’s not obvious how to do it here.

I don’t think anything like this is possible.

it’s why we tried to use nested view a while back, but more people voted to keep things in the traditional view

Traditional view is better than no-work-required for reply-quotes, at least in my opinion.

I agree that this way is better than what we tried for a while. If we can’t add that info to the default reply info I’ll just have to get better at identifying those teeny tiny pictures :joy:

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Ok - if you click the little reply avatar in the upper right of a message, it expands and shows the replied-to message inline

it’s a click, but at least the info is there

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