Following replies in topic mobile and desktop
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Just shifting a topic line.
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@Libri-Liberorum said in Bookworm Part 5 Vol. 8 Discussion!:
I'd like to reiterate a point made by someone a while ago: Please put enough context in your posts that we can understand which conversation they are part of. Just the name of the person you are responding to is not enough. Whatever point you are trying to make is unlikely to be sufficient reward to me for scrolling back to try to identify what you are replying to, so I won't bother. At this point, your post is pure noise, taking up space and contributing nothing.
Just so you know, you can mouse over (or click) the thingy I highlighted to immediately see what post someone is replying to. If you're on mobile and don't see it, try putting your phone in landscape.Ah it seems I wasn't the first to post this, missed it as it was in the middle of the post. At least noone mentioned how to get it on mobile yet.
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@Flamesz-0 said in Bookworm Part 5 Vol. 8 Discussion!:
immediately see what post someone is replying to
As I believe was pointed out, there's a problem with that.
What section of the post is being responded to.Consecutive posts by the same person with no intervening posts by anyone else get combined by the admin.
As a result, many of us don't break up posts if dealing with more than one subject just so we don't make more work for them.
We just say everything we've got to say at the time and post.If you had commented on five different things...or if it's a long multi-paragraph comment on one thing...the specific thing being replied to is unclear if nothing is quoted.
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@jcochran
Hovering over the @name to see the quote being replied to works on my Samsung tablet. So it does function on at least one mobile device. -
@LightningLeaf said in Bookworm Part 5 Vol. 8 Discussion!:
@jcochran
Hovering over the @name to see the quote being replied to works on my Samsung tablet. So it does function on at least one mobile device.Then congratulations. On my phone, I get the profile of the user and not a link to the replied to message. On an actual desktop computer, I do get a backlink to the message. But honestly, it's quite easy to quote part of the message you're replying to and hence eliminate the effort for others to figure out the context. Additionally, for merged messages that are responses to multiple threads, the backlink doesn't specify which point is being addressed.
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@jcochran
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@LightningLeaf said in Bookworm Part 5 Vol. 8 Discussion!:
@jcochran
Someone mentioned that the trick is to use the mobile device in landscape.I don't think that was a serious solution. The viewport is rather tiny in landscape due to the way the forum software lays out the site. So while you can certainly see the link back to the post, you can barely read much else due to all the wasted space.
Technically, you have the option in most mobile web browsers to switch to the desktop site, which will also show you the link back to the post being replied to while also letting you read the reply itself. Then again, attempting to write a reply of your own introduces you to completely different viewport problems within the editor, due to how weirdly it's rendered on the desktop site view on a mobile device.
I read the request for quoting a bit like this: please don't force me to spend 30 seconds wrestling with the quirks of this forum software when less than 10 seconds of quoting universally solves everything for everyone on all devices.
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@LightningLeaf said in Bookworm Part 5 Vol. 8 Discussion!:
@jcochran
Someone mentioned that the trick is to use the mobile device in landscape.That someone said "try". I've tried and it doesn't work.
