How difficult would it be to make the Discourse UI more like Flarum?

[oshyan (Oshyan Greene)]

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Right; reply being a distinct action you have to trigger, rather than a prefilled input box is a highly intentional design element from the earliest days of Discourse.

Hold on now Jeff, I get the feeling you may be misunderstanding the request (and/or the way Flarum works). You know I am quite familiar with the reasoning behind Discourse and many of its design decisions. Anyway, probably better to continue this over on the topic I created for it:

Reply text box as alternative to current button approach

Continuing the discussion from How difficult would it be to make the Discourse UI more like Flarum?: I’d like to suggest we have the option for… I’d be curious if others agree with my armchair psychoanalysis of how this alternative approach feels and what behavior it may encourage or discourage in average users. Note that this “text box” really acts kind of like a button in Flarum. So I am not suggesting a radical change to how the composer works. The outline of the text box appears on-hover…