Hi.
On the webforum, I don’t have a reply button. Just and “Reply With Quote”.
How do I get the Reply only button ?
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Erik Jakobsen
Opensuse 12.3
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> On the webforum,
using nntp you don’t need to know! 
Sådan!
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dd
openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobile” of operating systems!
Please stop this, the OP asks about the webforum. If I ask directions for public transport to some place, “buy a car” is not an answer to my question.
To the OP: clear cache and cookies of your browser. Your double identity has been reported, will be dealt with by the admins. The cause of this might very well be in that area. Clearing cache and cookies should fix the reply button.
Same here, no “reply only” button, just reply “with quote”. IIRC it disappeared here with a forum upgrade, so it would be nice to have it back.
Just did that, it didn’t work for me. Not that I expected it to, because I have done it several times since noticing the missing button quite some time ago.
Yes, it isn’t there. In my memory there was once. But you can use what I do, the blue “New Reaction” at the bottom.
I am seeing a “Reply to Thread” near the bottom left.
Yes, I do that, and have done since the reply only button went missing.
The downside is that anyone using threaded mode (if there is anyone?) is forced to quote in order to maintain position in tree.
I know. 
That was always there, including when the missing button was there.
Yes, it is not a replacement, but it does do the same thing.
Maybe we should ping Kim about this.
Not noticed anyone complain, and I suspect it’s of less importance these days. It really only affects those users actively engaging in “threaded” mode. Probably no big deal, thinking about it:
When the “reply only button” was there, users could just tag onto the last post without quoting, even if they were replying to a post several places back. That just mucks up threaded mode anyway, and can be annoying to the tagged party. To be effective, it should be used in reply to a targeted post. I’m speculating that web interface users don’t bother with viewing in “threaded” mode these days.
Without the reply button, targeting a previous post requires the “with quote button”, maybe one can delete the quote if not required but I’m not sure.
Perhaps threaded mode is of more interest to NNTP users? I thought Kim was one, but let it go anyway.
I have experimented with threaded mode. But I find linear mode more congenial.
I’ll often “Reply with quote”, then delete most of the quote leaving just enough to identify what I am replying to. And, of course, that leaves a link back to the message I am replying to.
Threaded mode can be awkward, given a small viewing window. Occasionally used it to help understanding a complicated thread, but don’t see many of those now.
I’ll often “Reply with quote”, then delete most of the quote leaving just enough to identify what I am replying to. And, of course, that leaves a link back to the message I am replying to.
Yep, a good practice in consideration of the viewers and readers.
On 2013-05-10 17:16, consused wrote:
> The downside is that anyone using threaded mode (if there is anyone?)
> is forced to quote in order to maintain position in tree.
We nntp users use threaded mode (my educated guess). It is very
confusing for us to see a reply somewhere in the thread, without any
quotes, think that it is a reply to the previous post in the thread, and
then the contents make no sense.
It is hard then to figure out what the user is actually replying to.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
On 2013-05-10 16:26, Knurpht wrote:
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> DenverD;2555617 Wrote:
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>>> On the webforum,
>>
>> using nntp you don’t need to know! Sådan!
>
> Please stop this, the OP asks about the webforum. If I ask directions
> for public transport to some place, “buy a car” is not an answer to my
> question.
I think dd was making a joke.
And the OP was actually using nntp to post the question.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
On 2013-05-10 19:26, consused wrote:
> Threaded mode can be awkward, given a small viewing window.
> Occasionally used it to help understanding a complicated thread, but
> don’t see many of those now.
Threaded mode in web side is a pain. It does not track what posts you
have actually read, and it has bugs (it does not display the entire tree
in the tree window, you have to click “more” or something to display
just one more entry).
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
With the present setup, where there is no quote, one can only assume it’s a “reply to thread” unless the content implies otherwise. At least nntp users can see that with a client showing structure (e.g. SeaMonkey’s client for handling newsgroups). If the “reply only” button returned, you couldn’t safely assume anything.
On the web interface in linear mode, one has to make that assumption, although scanning back and forth through the thread is easier.
It seems to me that forums tend to be less structured and formal wrt threads than say mailing lists and newsgroups.
>> DenverD;2555617 Wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On the webforum,
>>>
>>> using nntp you don’t need to know! Sådan!
>
>>
>> Please stop this, the OP asks about the webforum. If I ask directions
>> for public transport to some place, “buy a car” is not an answer to my
>> question.
>
> I think dd was making a joke.
> And the OP was actually using nntp to post the question.
>
dd made a joke, I knwo him personally.
And correct, I used nntp to post the question.
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Erik Jakobsen
Opensuse 12.3
Linux linux-z96b.site 3.7.10-1.4-desktop
On 10/05/13 17:06, hcvv wrote:
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> consused;2555669 Wrote:
>> Just did that, it didn’t work for me. Not that I expected it to, because
>> I have done it several times since noticing the missing button quite
>> some time ago.
> Yes, it isn’t there. In my memory there was once. But you can use what
> I do, the blue “New Reaction” at the bottom.
>
>
Very fine Henk
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Erik Jakobsen
Opensuse 12.3
Linux linux-z96b.site 3.7.10-1.4-desktop
On 10/05/13 17:16, nrickert wrote:
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> consused;2555667 Wrote:
>> Same here, no “reply only” button, just reply “with quote”.
>
> I am seeing a “Reply to Thread” near the bottom left.
>
>
So did I, wasn’t what I was asking for
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Erik Jakobsen
Opensuse 12.3
Linux linux-z96b.site 3.7.10-1.4-desktop