Quote feature is in a horrible place now

Could you also add a feature where people are not allowed to quote the whole OP?
That is really irritating.

That's true @YourNameGoesHere

The trouble is for every one person like you who isn't confused there's another 9 who are and before quote became a feature it was understandable that it would just add a message but naturally now many people, quite understandably, think it responds to that individual post.

It's making a heck of a lot of threads unreadable because the replies make no sense without the messages the poster thinks they are replying too.

replies to the thread, where as posters expect it to reply to specific posts.

I only use the desktop / web version occasionally but have never been confused about what 'reply' does.

I do agree the overall design & pointless features MN bring in, do cause confusion. It's why I prefer the app with way fewer options!

Again though reply does work properly, it just doesn't do what you (or most of MN) think it should do. It replies to the thread, where as posters expect it to reply to specific posts.

With quote and edit hidden behind the 3 dots I suspect there's a significant number of MNers who have no idea these features exist.

Just came on here to say this! The reply button doesn’t work properly

This about sums it up and it's probably irrational of me but the fact they named the button reply feels very much like a deliberate attempt to confuse people. It might have been ok before they introduced the quote feature but now we have it no wonder people think that's what will happen if they click reply.

I saw a post the other day that said

"reply doesn't seem to be working"

And all I could think was reply is working, it just doesn't do what you think it does.

It's a pointless feature and I wish MNHQ would remove it.

@Blondeshavemorefun

Exactly!

You do what I did here - @ the poster or copy & paste the relevant text.

Endless quotes-of-quotes are really annoying. Tho MN could sort it if they allowed editable quoting.

I've seen a few too, I probably even posted on yours at the time but thought I'd be kind and give HQ time to assess and fix the issue. However it seems they have no interest making any changes and as you've said the problem seems to be getting worse. Genuinely getting so fed up of reading threads where the OP or other posters are clearly responding to a post but have hit reply and therefore the whole thread is just pages of nonsense because the replies have none of the context.

This is the third thread I've been on now (one that I started) explaining that Reply is shit and doesn't actually reply at all. It creates threads full of nonsense where people think they have replied and haven't.

Never seen a response from MN about this and addressing wht they won't just remove the Reply button altogether when it is not only useless but actively makes threads harder to follow.

Coz it means @EarringsandLipstick I can't reply to your message above

As you have quoted me

One quote is fine.

Repeatedly quoting quoted posts is so annoying - there's a long list of quotes, most of which becomes irrelevant.

On the app, this isn't even shown so if someone quotes quotes, it only shows the original quote, so makes even less sense!

I will never understand why MN keep introducing new elements on the desktop version that are unavailable on the app (and I gather the Android version is worse).

I wish I could quote a quote on the app

Annoying as mainly use app but then can't reply easily .....

I use the app, and while functionality is limited, it's far more straightforward than the web version.

I particularly like that on the app you can't quote already quoted posts (so you can only quote once). It drives me mad, posters quoting endlessly and then having a long post of nested quotes.

The Save, Share & Reply options are also not available. I feel on the web version, MNHQ are testing out features they plan to use in the future, but aren't sure how. (For example, giving thanks seems to be to be a possible prelude to the dreaded 'like' option).

I think it's frustrating how few posters tag others correctly or use the c&p option to select the pertinent point they are replying to.

I can't understand all the confusion about bookmarking. You bookmark to the point you've read. The next time you open that thread you'll be taken to the last point you finished reading, then you can read the newer posts. What else would it do?! (The idea that it's to mark particularly important posts (what?) is just odd.

There is no way that Save, Share and Bookmark are all more important/useful than Quote.

Just bumping this again to see if MNHQ had got round to discussing this yet because it's driving me completely bonkers the amount of posters who think that hitting reply means they are responding to a specific post and making threads almost fucking impossible to follow.

Please for the love of logic I'm begging you just replace reply with quote !

I use mobile browser Chrome.
I tried the app, but it seemed far more clunky at the time.

Ah is it an app thing? I only use the mobile/desktop site.

Does MN remember your last read post without bookmarking?

I think so.

Say I reply in a thread in Chat called "Name something blue" and go to bed.
At breakfast I'll look at my phone and Tap 'I'm on'
The thread in Chat "Name Something Blue" has 35 replies, I can see the last two.

If I tap the title of the thread, it takes me to my last read reply.
If I tap one of the replies I can see, it takes me to those replies.

It also seems to work if I dont reply. If I open the link, read a few posts and then close it. If I see the same thread in active and rap again it takes.me to where I got too.

I hope all that makes some sense. 🤣

Does MN remember your last read post without bookmarking? It never used to - that's what the bookmark feature was brought in to do.

It's no use for saving useful posts because as soon as you post a comment yourself, it resets your bookmark to that comment.

100% agree about "reply" being confusing and causing people to assume they will be adding a quote. I've done this too and I've been here ages.

Agree that add message and reply are both totally redundant - replace them with the quote button. People can scroll down to the bottom if they want to reply without quoting. Which would also encourage people to RTFT...

And why do you need a share button on every single comment? Report could also be hidden in the 3 dots menu. It's so cluttered with too many buttons at the moment.

+1

It's a bit shit though because you need to find the post to then find your bookmark. So unless you have also saved the post you'd need to remember which section the post was in and scroll through until you found it. Or remember the name of the thread / poster and use search.

Bookmark is most helpful alone on a long thread if you want to scroll back up and then jump back to where you were.

Oh I see.
I just tested it and instead of going to first unread post it goes to the post you bookmarked.
I suppose if there's a very useful reply you might want to go back to the it's useful in that scenario.