# Reply to post appears twice when expanded

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-to-post-appears-twice-when-expanded/123578
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 21, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-to-post-appears-twice-when-expanded/123578 "2019-07-21T14:48:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![pest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e480ec/32.png) [@pest](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pest)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-to-post-appears-twice-when-expanded/123578/1 "2019-07-21T14:48:09Z")

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Hi! I have a reply appearing twice and cannot find any settings or other way to deal with this.

 ![2xcomment](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/3/636b52d8d3c4438487f62a2633767541bdda1a6a.png)

I was searching the forum and found this old post that sound similar but cant follow the links in it:

> [@Linked replies showing up again so you have to read them twice - can this be addressed?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/linked-replies-showing-up-again-so-you-have-to-read-them-twice-can-this-be-addressed/29947):
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> I have a question about reading a thread when you expand the replies under another reply… you will still see that reply again below. I did read the [thread about this,](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-rid-of-stream-duplication-when-expanding-reply-to/21227/18) but the discussion was very technical for a new person to discourse, and it seems to have fizzled out anyway. So I’ll start it again. I’ll also attach a screenshot. The arrows show the duplication. This is annoying and time consuming to re read replies. Maybe there could be a user set option to either present the thread in date…

bug or feature?

thanks in advance!

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### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-to-post-appears-twice-when-expanded/123578/2 "2019-07-21T14:52:44Z")

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Feature: you’ve surely clicked the Reply indicator that will expand to show you, for your convenience, what the reply was, in place. Hit the Reply indicator once more to hide it.

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### Author: ![pest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e480ec/32.png) [@pest](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pest)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-to-post-appears-twice-when-expanded/123578/3 "2019-07-21T15:07:31Z")

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ok thanks! is there a way to disable it? dont see it in posts settings

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2019, 10:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-to-post-appears-twice-when-expanded/123578/4 "2019-07-22T10:50:09Z")

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Hide it with CSS if you need to, but it’s a built in Discourse feature.

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-to-post-appears-twice-when-expanded/123578/6 "2019-07-22T13:58:29Z")

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Closed as duplicate. There are already plenty of topics about this.