Discourse bot editing "full quote" posts

Leebo · December 30, 2018, 5:25pm

Yeah, this is similar to, but more annoying to me personally than, the thing where it doesn’t show who you replied to when you click the “reply” button on an individual post if you are the next poster after them. That one has led to hundreds of newbies deleting and re-posting because they thought the forum bugged out.

Discourse should get the message that just because a post comes after another one doesn’t mean it’s a direct reply to it, so when it is actually a direct reply it would be nice to make that clear.

seanblue · December 30, 2018, 5:26pm

I’m creating a topic on the main Discourse forums suggesting that right now.

seanblue · December 30, 2018, 5:26pm

This post is a test. Disregard.

seanblue · December 30, 2018, 5:32pm

Do you mind if I post an image of the exact text from your reply to me? I’m using it to demonstrate the lack of “reply avatar”, but I wanted to check first.

It would be this:

Leebo · December 30, 2018, 5:33pm

Yeah, that’s fine.

seanblue · December 30, 2018, 5:43pm

For those interested:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-always-display-who-you-are-replying-to/105323

viet · December 30, 2018, 6:13pm

I’ve disabled the setting discussed in the link of the original post. Give it a try now.

viet · December 30, 2018, 6:19pm

Is this test really fine though? TEST.

seanblue · December 30, 2018, 7:57pm

This is also a test

seanblue · December 30, 2018, 7:58pm

@viet It seems like there are also settings that could fix the issue @Leebo mentioned above. Fixing that would be a huge improvement.

https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-always-display-who-you-are-replying-to/105323/2?u=seanblue

viet · December 30, 2018, 8:03pm

Try it now. I’ve disabled the two mentioned settings

seanblue · December 30, 2018, 8:09pm

Seems to be working as described. I can tell right from your post. Thanks again! Have a nice holiday!

Belthazar · December 30, 2018, 8:41pm

Oh, nice. I do like this.

jprspereira · December 30, 2018, 9:14pm

OMG IT LOOKS SO MUCH BETTER NOW. GJ TEAM.

seanblue · December 30, 2018, 10:43pm

I think the last related setting is suppress_reply_when_quoting. I believe turning this one off will make it so that replies still show the avatar of who you’re replying to, even if you also quoted that user. This one is useful to disable for when you’re quoting multiple people in the same post, so that it’s still clear who you’re replying to specifically.

viet · December 30, 2018, 10:44pm

Okay. I’ve disabled this one just now.

seanblue · December 30, 2018, 10:53pm

Great, thanks!

Kuvshinova · December 30, 2018, 11:12pm

You guys are heroes.

Kumirei · December 31, 2018, 5:57am

YAAAAAAAY

Belthazar · December 31, 2018, 9:31pm

Just discovered if I start writing a post in reply to a specific person, I can no longer change it to a post responding to the thread in general without deleting the entire post and starting over. Which setting changed that?