The issue happen when I reply to a specific message in the german-forum.
In my reply it do not show, in the very up/right corner of my message, to which message I reply to anymore.
About two weeks ago I have not noticed this issue at all.
And it looks to me that other users do not have this issue.
But I noticed way more replyâs (in german-forum) that do not show (in the very up/right corner of the message) to which message the reply is for.
So maybe there is a general-issue and I am the only user who notice it.
But maybe there is mistake done by me that I am not aware of.
But I think that I donât do anything different compared to about two weeks ago.
Maybe there was a general-admin-change some users have not noticed
and a byproduct is this issue.
In the last days I helped myself with the use of @username but I am not happy with this workaround.
I thought maybe the issue will disappear by itself in a few days - but it didnât.
For info, itâs not the fact that you edited the reply - I did that with one of mine here and who I replied to is visible along with the fact that I edited it.
My guess** is that perhaps Discourse doesnât show you who you replied to if that reply is currently the most recent in the thread, even if you explicitly chose to reply to a post, not reply generally to the thread?
There are plenty of other examples where ânanny Discourseâ doesnât let you quote text the way you want to, or use the characters in your reply that you want to.
Edit: ** yes - it looks like that. Here I explicitly replied to a post, but Discourse has removed that information.
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There is no change if my reply is to the currently most recent in the thread.
Mostly I explicitly chose to reply to a specific post (99%)
and only rarely reply generally to the thread (1%).
It worked always for me in the past (up to and included October 29th) - as far as I remember.
That is why I think this a general issue / bug (since November 1st â I have looked this date up in my profile a minute ago).
I see two different outcomes depending on whether I choose to reply to a post (be it the last one or not) or to the thread, but in either case, the post/thread Iâm responding to is shown:
Wait, are you talking about the actual reply once itâs published, not about the composing interface for the reply? Because I in the composing interface I can always see who Iâm replying to (an individual post or the thread), though it appears on the left as seen in the screencast I posted above.
I suspect the actual post, once published, doesnât show who you are replying to if itâs a response to the immediately preceding post.
EDIT: indeed, this was the case: I wrote this post as a reply to your last post, and saw that indication in the composing interface, but once published, it didnât show up in the thread as being a reply to your post specifically.
Iâm not fully sure I understand whatâs currently confusing.
Is the ask to enable the âin-reply-toâ link in messages when the reply is to the message directly above? Is there a need for an expanding in-reply-to link when the message is just on your screen above?
Thatâs at least part of it, yes. More generally Discourse shouldnât try and second-guess what I did and think I meant something else (replace characters I used with other characters, or remove part of my reply, for example).