Apparently replying to certain posts doesn’t create a “reply”-post but just a normal-looking post despite the fact that I even got a notification about a reply from someone. I cannot fully reproduce the behavior but it seems to happen more often with replying to posts that were just added to the pa…

Is it when you reply to the post directly above? That normally hides the little avatar ‘in-reply-to’ in the top right corner. You can change that by using the suppress reply directly above setting: [suppress reply directly above] There are a couple more ‘suppress reply’ settings too: [suppress …

[image] JammyDodger: suppress reply directly great, I will test this. Thanks for the feedback

That’s because it would be incredibly noisy.. most replies are in fact replies to the post directly above them. So that defaults to off to reduce repeated noise text metadata in the content.

[image] JammyDodger: Is it when you reply to the post directly above? That normally hides the little avatar ‘in-reply-to’ in the top right corner This default behaviour has caused confusion to several users over at the JustinGuitar Community - including me.. So much confusion that I - mistak…

I think it does occasionally catch people out. :slight_smile: If you check out the Related Topics feature at the bottom of the topic you’ll see a few other examples over the years: [related topics] There are the settings noted above you can ask the admin to toggle to see if you/they’d prefer the …

[image] JammyDodger: though I tried it myself once to test it out and it is surprisingly noisy for not much extra info Noisy? How so? I thought the only difference would be that users would always see what you call “the little avatar ‘in-reply-to” in their reply. Is there some other visual…

[image] JammyDodger: I think it does occasionally catch people out. :slight_smile: If you check out the Related Topics feature at the bottom of the topic you’ll see a few other examples over the years: Yeah, I did see those topics. Obviously, we are not the only people who did not expect thi…

[image] Thomas Bushell: I was reassured in my other thread that this would not happen. Was that your experience as well? Don’t worry, it’s pretty safe. :slight_smile: If you don’t like the look of it you can just toggle it/them back off again. :+1:

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Sören_Geier (Sören Geier) January 14, 2022, 10:37am 4

great, I will test this. Thanks for the feedback

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