Full quote button in editor missing

UX
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Thanks for reaching out — we made a decision to remove the full quote button for a few reasons:

  • The space on the composer toolbar is quite limited, so we needed to find a way to reduce the number of actions. We’ll be continuing this work in future iterations, so you may notice more movement or changes as we make progress there.

  • By default, the remove full quote setting is enabled, which automatically removes full quotes in many situations. We feel this default is sensible to avoid cluttering topics with duplicated content, but having a toolbar option that conflicts with that default seems confusing.

  • For sites that have disabled remove full quote or in situations where it doesn’t apply, members can still select the post’s text to create a full quote. While this may not be as convenient as the full quote button, it is still a reasonable workaround.

I share these to help explain our reasoning, but I would be happy to learn more about how you used this feature. That information can help us determine the best way forward here. In the meantime, I’m moving this to UX since I can confirm this is not a bug.

Thanks in advance for sharing with us!

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