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Could we add a link to quoted posts in the touch site?

hatrickpatrick · 2018-05-23 16:06:33

On the desktop site, when you see a quoted post and you'd like to contribute a reply to the original quoted post, you can click the little blue arrow to jump to that post. On the touch site, there is no such link - so you have to manually scroll back to find the post you'd like to reply to and click reply on it. In very…

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23-05-2018 5:06pm

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hatrickpatrick

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On the desktop site, when you see a quoted post and you'd like to contribute a reply to the original quoted post, you can click the little blue arrow to jump to that post. On the touch site, there is no such link - so you have to manually scroll back to find the post you'd like to reply to and click reply on it.

In very large and high traffic threads, this can be a real pain. Would it be possible to add the blue arrow to the touch site to assist such quoting?

Attached is a screenshot of a post which contains a quotation - it's the quoted post by "stonedpilot" which I'd like to quote and reply, but on the touch site the only way I'll be able to do this is to scroll back and find it myself. This thread is currently experiencing several posts per second, so the task of finding a post in this manner is a little daunting.

Post edited by Shield on December 2021

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