The discussion revolves around modifying the “reply to” link on a posted message. Canapin asks if it’s possible to add an explicit “reply to” on a message by editing it after posting, as they were implicitly replying to a previous message but the link wasn’t established due to other posts being added in between. supermathie suggests adding a quote to the message, even temporarily, to create the link. pfaffman provides an example of a clear reply link. Canapin confirms the solution and asks if it’s possible to break the reply-to link afterwards, to which supermathie responds that it’s not possible to do so from the UI as of their last knowledge.
I was writing a message on a topic. I was implicitly replying to the last message but I didn’t used the “reply to message” option.
When I posted my message, I noticed that someone else posted several messages between my message and the message I was implicitly replying to.
Is it possible to add an explicit “reply to” on my message by editing it?
I believe if you edit in a quote (even temporarily) to your message it makes the link.
If you mean this message: Open new tab from the category selector? - #4 by Canapin
You can see that it’s clear that you are referring to codinghorror’s message.
Hi, Michael Brown’s reply was the solution.
Is it possible to break this reply-to afterwards?
On the message you screenshot Jay, I explicitely replied to Jeff (and I started to write after the previous message from The BestPessimist was posted) so I didn’t have this issue.
Last I was aware (a few months), not from the UI.
