Introducing nested replies

[ToddZ]

@markvanlan

In flat mode, the various Reply buttons don’t matter as much. The post is going at the bottom of the topic. I’m not sure users always intentionally press the “right one” that would translate to the nested view.

I always felt the “reply” labels could be more specific – so a while back I used some custom CSS to add context:

screenshot

CSS

/* add text to Reply button for the original post (aka Topic)  */
#post_1 nav.post-controls {
  .actions {
    button.reply {
      span.d-button-label:after {
        // Adding this content after Reply
        content: " to this Topic";
      }
    }
  }
}

/* add text to Reply button for all subsequent posts (I'm calling them comments)  */
nav.post-controls {
  .actions {
    button.reply {
      span.d-button-label:after {
        // Adding this content after Reply
        content: " to this comment";
      }
    }
  }
}

/* add text to blue Reply (to Topic) button appearing at the end of the page */
#topic-footer-buttons {
  .topic-footer-main-buttons {
    button.btn-primary.create {
      span.d-button-label:after {
        // Adding this content after Reply
        content: " to main Topic";
      }
    }
  }
}