# Should "Reply" appear in the right gutter?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-reply-appear-in-the-right-gutter/45338>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [4 Junio, 2016 13:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-reply-appear-in-the-right-gutter/45338 "2016-06-04T13:07:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![featheredtoast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/featheredtoast/32/116994_2.png) [@featheredtoast](https://meta.discourse.org/u/featheredtoast)\
**Post date:** [6 Junio, 2016 20:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-reply-appear-in-the-right-gutter/45338/10 "2016-06-06T20:55:43Z")

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For what it’s worth, I like it as-is.

That way no matter how far down I am in the post, I can still reply to the original topic, _or_ engage with any of the replies previously – and it’s my choice.

From my understanding, generic replies (sans-link) are either be replying to the post immediately above, OR to the original topic. Maybe I just want to reply/respond to the main topic (even after reading only 30/100 comments), and the reply button in the gutter is a good way of doing that. I think it’s fine to reply in general even if the user hasn’t read _all_ the way to the bottom. It should perhaps be encouraged by the community, but not mandatory by the software.

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