Is there a way to modify an existing topic reply to be a post-specific reply? I know I am guilty of it as well, but there are numerous times that I see someone clearly replying to a specific post but they mistakenly use the topic reply. It would be great to have the ability to fix the reply-type via the “select post” menu.

hmm other than editing the post with a quote from the post being replied to or something like that, I can’t think of another way. One thing that might help is adding “to topic” to the footer topic button label, so it says “reply to topic” to make it more obvious and distinguish it from the post reply buttons: [Screenshot 2024-08-05 at 6.56.11 AM] in common - css of a theme component: #topic-footer-buttons { .topic-footer-main-buttons { button.btn-primary.create { span.d-button-label:after { // Adding this content after Reply content: " to Topic"; } } } }

It would be nice to be able to relocate a reply, but the CSS from @Lilly works great! I had to review make CSS changes, and it was a snap.

I really like Lilly’s solution as well. After implementing it on my forum, it confuses me why it wouldn’t be the default setting for Discourse. Seeing the two reply buttons here on Meta just seems outdated now :slight_smile: Thank you!

[image] Jim Kleiber: Seeing the two reply buttons here on Meta just seems outdated now They mean different things. But yeah, tbh they should have different localised strings so they can be edited separately (imho) (I believe they are not separate but please correct me if they are distinct) CSS isn’t really the best way to implement this if you could PR that instead. (it’s a great workaround though in the meantime! :+1:)

[image] Robert: They mean different things. Ah, yeah, I know the one above is to reply directly to the post and the one at the bottom to the topic, I guess I meant the labeling just seemed confusing, not the repetition of the buttons themselves. I agree a PR would be better than CSS, and I’d love to one day figure out how to run Discourse locally on my Mac so I can feel more confident submitting PRs. I imagine this one would be maybe the least likely to cause any other bugs, but I think I’d feel more relaxed testing it out locally first.

you as in “one”, not necessarily “you”, but there’s no stopping you!

:smiley: Side note and off topic, I think so many of the conflicts in my life come when someone says “you” to me and I either subconsciously assume they mean me or I pause and say, “When you say you, you mean me?” and sometimes they look completely confused. My buddy even once said, “You always do that!!” and I was like, “I always do what?” and he said, “Huh? Oh, I didn’t mean you, I meant me. I always do that.” Thank you for the clarification and yes I hope to reach that next level of Discourse contribution one day :smiley:

I also implemented @Lilly’s suggestion (thank you!), but I do still think there’s value in having a moderation solution to connect posts after they are created. I tried editing the post and adding a quote but it didn’t “link” the reply like I had hoped.

I think we have a #feature topic on this: [image] Change "in reply to" when editing Feature Sometimes users accidentally reply to the wrong post. When that happens I often see them awkwardly apologize to the person they accidentally replied to, or delete their post just to recreate it replying to the correct person. I think it would be really helpful if, when editing a post, there was an easy way to change the “in reply to” post. Here’s one possible approach: When you’re in the middle of editing a post, you can click a reply icon to another post. Right now this either empties the con…

Adding CSS may not be the best solution — and my CSS may not be the best CSS — but I found that the following works to also add context to the reply-to-post (comment) button: nav.post-controls { .actions { button.reply { span.d-button-label:after { // Adding this content after Reply content: " to this comment"; } } } } Lacking a way to relocate a post after the fact, clearer labeling seems a good way to prevent confusion. Ideally this would be in the form of custom button label fields in Settings.

Is there a way to link replies after they are posted?

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Lilly (Lillian ) August 7, 2024, 6:57pm 15

yes exactly this. my solution is admittedly a bit of a hacky work-around

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Is there a way to link replies after they are posted?

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