It don't show to which message I responded anymore

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@nukeador
Yes, that’s it.
Why it can’t show this in every reply? When the user explicitly click on the “direct reply to a specific post” instead of click on “the very last reply at the bottom” to only reply to the thread in general.

Somehow the “behavior” of the forum concerning this issue has improved since I has started this thread. (Why that? Maybe you can tell me that. I don’t know.)
Now there are only some posts that are excluded. I think that should be fixed too.
Thank you in advance

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I don’t really know why it wasn’t working and it’s working on this one. From my understanding, you won’t get the “in-reply-to” only in the two situations I commented (reply is just below or you reply to the original message)

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I use the forums in mailing list mode, reading them in Evolution which is an Outlook type application. I am sure many of us are faimliar with Outlook in our non-FOSS dayjobs.

Evolution and Outlook both display a tree like view where I can easily see who has responded to who.

This is a the view I see from the @tagging list.

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From the forums I just see a single indent, and not who has respended to who.
An example of the ‘same’ topic as in the tagging list.

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I have never been a fan of forums as they basically show everthing in chronological order. It would be nice if the forums would replicate this standard mailing list feature.

Phil (trigpoint)

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Email threading used to work, but it seems there is a bug upstream being discussed

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As another bit of feedback, my reply at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/including-the-uk-quiet-lanes-in-openstreetmap/6141/5 was actually to the first post of the thread, not the most recent one. As far as I can see, there is no way to tell that.

(I know this issue has been raised before, but a search doesn’t find it, hence this new thread).

Edit: This post has now been moved to below the previous topic. Thanks!

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Hmm yeah I agree it would be good to distinguish if a post is a reply to the original first post, or to the post just above it. Is it possible to enable this?

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Another bug related to this issue: If you are writing a reply to the most recent post and someone else ( not @SomeoneElse 
 I mean any other someone else 
 :wink:) happens to squeeze in another reply before you finished your own, you end up being cut off from the post you replied to.

Happened to me already 2 times and the only workaround apparently is to edit your post and insert a “@xxx” on top of your post to indicate the user you replied to.

Generally I do not see any reason at all why the link to the post you replied to should not be fixed to your reply in any case, notwithstanding if you replied to the OP or the most recent post or any other one. The link does not cost any extra money and is does not make any sense to omit it in one ore the other case.

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