Highlighting the reply as linked topic functionality

[wolftune]

FYI, this was already discussed here a few years ago:

Request: UNHIDE the reply-as-linked-topic function

I have seen a norm in Discourse forums that topics get into a meta or tangential discussion far too easily and then the original topic somewhat dies. This happens more often on some forums than others, but I suspect the majority of Discourse users do not know that reply-as-linked-topic exists. If the option were exposed when replying (instead of requiring a click on the reply-arrow icon), it would get used far more often. It would prompt people to consider it (which I’m suggesting would be grea…

And the issue remains, and I’m glad to see others making noise about it. Important functions being effectively never discovered (even by moderators often enough!) is a really bad design.

EDIT: I see that was linked above already, oh well, anyway, the reason I found this again is yet another case of ignorance of this in yet another different instance I was just at.