I have noticed that for a while, replying to posts not always works as I’d expect. If I press the “reply” button at the bottom of a topic, I assume that’s a normal response. But using the reply button next to a specific message should be a reply to that message, showing the link to the parent messag…

Hello and welcome @noeldemartin :slightly_smiling_face: If it’s a reply to the post directly above, the ‘in reply to’ avatar is suppressed to reduce a bit of visual noise, and the context/proximity is meant to convey the conversational link between the two. However, there is an admin setting that …

Interesting, I wasn’t aware of that and as a user it seemed like a bug. In this case though, the post I was replying to was not directly above, but the message above was from the person I was replying to. I guess the same may apply though, if it’s just looking at the person who posted above rather …

Hmmm. :thinking: It should be connected to the message, not the user. So if I had a run of three consecutive posts, and you then replied to the last one, there’d be no ‘in-reply-to’ visuals. But if you replied to the second of the three, then it should have the ‘in-reply-to’ as they’re not next to e…

Reply to message not always working

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noeldemartin (Noel De Martin) May 14, 2022, 2:38pm 5

Yes, I was also quoting the message so it could be that third setting at play.

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Reply to message not always working

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