So I noticed there is the link to share a post/reply as a linked topic, and in messages its possible to share a message as a message and maybe change the recipients. I was wondering if it would be useful to do other combinations like:
share a post as a reply in another thread (instead of starting a new thread) (I guess you would just link it into the body of your reply though?)
share a post as a private message
share a private message as a thread (probably not, it is not necessarily fair to allow one party to invalidate the secrecy of both parties, ethical issue)
Maybe, I can’t seem to find this though, I don’t have the option in any of the ‘Share’ buttons, is it somewhere else, or maybe requires higher trust level?
It’s in the Composer, the top left icon is a button which serves a short menu:
It’s not immediately obvious, though, I agree - intuitively you might think it would be a button on the bottom of a post, specifically the sharing button.
Ah thanks for that I understand now! I’m in the dark theme at the moment, and I didn’t notice the icon was a button. Also, I generated the feedback when I was in the share button just looking around. Probably a user who wanted to reply in a message would hit reply instead of share.
What if you wanted to forward the post to someone as a message? Would people do that rather than invite someone to the topic?
Maybe keeping the distinction between off-site and on-site interactions is useful?
It’s a power user feature, like keyboard shortcuts. Why would that be surprising? Keyboard shortcuts aren’t “intuitive” either, but that’s hardly the point, now is it…
