The ‘reply to post’ function in the discussion forum has an inconsistency. bartv points out that replying to the original post or the most recent post does not create a linked reply. erlend_sh explains that this is intended behavior, with the logic being that if there’s no reply-to-indicator, the reply is either to the post above or the original post. However, bartv argues that this is not discoverable by users and consistency would be improved by displaying the link everywhere. Fortunately, erlend_sh reveals that there is a setting, suppress reply directly below, that can be adjusted to change this behavior.
I’m not 100% sure if this is a bug or intended behaviour, but our users are confused by it: there is an inconsistency in the ‘reply to post’ function (I mean the ‘in post’ grey reply button): in the following two cases, a reply won’t be ‘linked’ to the post:
When replying to the original post
When replying to the most recent post
In the second case I can see the point as the posts are physically next to each other (although I still prefer consistency). In the first case it’s hard to see which post was replied to.
The logic here is a little quirky. If there’s no reply-to-indicator, then it’s either a reply to the post immediately above it, or it’s a reply to the OP.
The problem with this is that this is impossible to ‘discover’ for users. I think it would be more consistent and easier to understand if the link was displayed everywhere.
(promise I wasn’t holding back on you)