Topic setting: make reply-to-post button act as "reply as new topic"

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

No, the earlier UI proposal is better. For advanced users the reply glyph at upper right could become a button that lets you select the “type” of reply:

With the new right gutter, where should "Reply as Linked Topic" go?

Whilst not 100% on this idea, it might be reasonable include a menu option. [image] [image] Perhaps the options here aren’t quite correct - but hopefully this shows the idea. You could also perhaps slip “Official Warning” and “Whisper” in there as options too. This would also open up a place to indicate a “call” type as required by Start a new conversation with a customer not yet in Discourse feature request. The idea is to change the type of reply whilst editing. In the same way as now c…

Still a big fan of @DeanMarkTaylor’s idea here.